cschmid
Senior Member
- Location
- Northern cold country
ground rod beat to death..has anyone ever used screw together rods?? ground rods serve only to protect high voltage surges and to stabilize the the transformer..but from personal experience the rods are necessary to be at 25 ohms or as close as possible to stabilize a system..I had an apartment building with 5 panels and blowing bulbs every other week..the apartment managers were changing the commons every 12 to 14 days..owner weant far as to by bulbs by the case and gave to residents the ohms to ground were over 150 it took three screw together rods to get down under 25 ohms..I cant not explain it in engineer terms but they now change the commons once a years on a 24/7 burn..no more tenants saying the electrical system was the cause of the electronic equipment being fried..But I will do some research on the stabilization thing unless someone here will explain it for me..