wireguy8169
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820.93(A) Entering Buildings. In installations where the coaxial
cable enters the building, the outer conductive shield shall
be grounded in accordance with 820.100. The grounding
shall be as close as practicable to the point of entrance
Customer on an addition had someone install an HD Receiver on the peak of the roof outside. The person that did it did not ground it and I informed the HO that is needed by the NEC to be grounded. Anyhow, she asked me what needed to be done. Well, I picked up a coax grounding block like the one that was posted in my previous thread on this topic. My only problem now is that the person that did this ran the cable that came with the receiver through the peak, into the house, down an open bay in the truss system about 60feet into the house, spliced the low voltage cable and coax in a closet and dropped into her basement and left it by where all her other coax drops are. (I am working on her addtion this is done in the old house)
where it is landed would be where it would have had to be run to ground it even if it was on the outside of the house. My question is does the coax being ran through the house pose a safety issue even if its properly grounded?
There is no where else that I can see that it could be grounded any closer to the point of entrance than where it has landed. Hope this makes sense and sorry for the length of my post.
cable enters the building, the outer conductive shield shall
be grounded in accordance with 820.100. The grounding
shall be as close as practicable to the point of entrance
Customer on an addition had someone install an HD Receiver on the peak of the roof outside. The person that did it did not ground it and I informed the HO that is needed by the NEC to be grounded. Anyhow, she asked me what needed to be done. Well, I picked up a coax grounding block like the one that was posted in my previous thread on this topic. My only problem now is that the person that did this ran the cable that came with the receiver through the peak, into the house, down an open bay in the truss system about 60feet into the house, spliced the low voltage cable and coax in a closet and dropped into her basement and left it by where all her other coax drops are. (I am working on her addtion this is done in the old house)
where it is landed would be where it would have had to be run to ground it even if it was on the outside of the house. My question is does the coax being ran through the house pose a safety issue even if its properly grounded?
There is no where else that I can see that it could be grounded any closer to the point of entrance than where it has landed. Hope this makes sense and sorry for the length of my post.