fmdell
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- Shenandoah, PA
In central PA, we have been installing telecommunications grounding bridges for years as part of new service installations. But, I have NEVER seen a telephone co., cable co., or satalite co. use it - even when it is right beside there lateral drop, NID or whatever. On one service I did, I went back for something a couple months later (can't remember what), and the telephone utility, actually pulled the ground out of the grounding bridge and reinstalled one of their strap ground things on the meter base again. It's as if they don't even know what they are. In fact, on new buildings or during major renovations of buildings in which I crossed paths with the telecomunications people, I would remind them that a grounding bridge was available and I can't think of a time when they had any idea what I was talking about. The code should get a little more bullheaded with the people on the user's end of these grounding means.
This may be as much a matter of forcing telecommunications vendors to educate their installers better, but it would be nice to use language that makes them liable to comply with a rule that obliges them to use the grounding bridges.
This may be as much a matter of forcing telecommunications vendors to educate their installers better, but it would be nice to use language that makes them liable to comply with a rule that obliges them to use the grounding bridges.