grasfulls
Senior Member
- Location
- San Bernardino. CA
This is like digging up the bones of a dead horse and beating them, but here goes.
There are now two jurisdictions in No Calif. mandating we install two ground rods in lieu of having a testing agency prove less than 25 ohms resistance to actual earth. I hate doing it when the EGC is right and everything is bonded properly and there really is no way a fault will be forced through the earth. But it is like smashing my head with two brick walls when I ask why and I get the boiler-plate answer "to make sure of low resistance to earth" and I ask, "why do you want that?" and they say.... you know exactly what they say, and then I ask, "well, where does the electricity want to go?" and yes, it is always "the earth".
The intro to this area of the forum should be enough but people just cannot get it through their heads where all those electrons want to go and the earth is really some remote fall-back. So, hats off to San Francisco and Palo Alto Calif. forcing homeowners to spend more money on a pointless installation. And a bow to your hard-headedness in sticking to it.
How do we stop it? I think I am posting more out of frustration than anything else.
There are now two jurisdictions in No Calif. mandating we install two ground rods in lieu of having a testing agency prove less than 25 ohms resistance to actual earth. I hate doing it when the EGC is right and everything is bonded properly and there really is no way a fault will be forced through the earth. But it is like smashing my head with two brick walls when I ask why and I get the boiler-plate answer "to make sure of low resistance to earth" and I ask, "why do you want that?" and they say.... you know exactly what they say, and then I ask, "well, where does the electricity want to go?" and yes, it is always "the earth".
The intro to this area of the forum should be enough but people just cannot get it through their heads where all those electrons want to go and the earth is really some remote fall-back. So, hats off to San Francisco and Palo Alto Calif. forcing homeowners to spend more money on a pointless installation. And a bow to your hard-headedness in sticking to it.
How do we stop it? I think I am posting more out of frustration than anything else.
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