Hi,
thank you all in advance for providing any advice and direction! I need wisdom and code compliance from the smarter-than-me heads in this forum.
I am so confused on what am I supposed to do. House is brand new, built in 2024, 3 stories, city follows IRC 2018 with GA 2020 and 2024 amendments and NEC 2023. I know there's UFER ground used, as in the garage I have a dual gang blank plate with a black PVC wire bonded with a clamp to a rebar. And I have photos/videos from when they built the house.
Interestingly, there is a single green wire coming out of the power meter company's meter going to a grounding bar, that's it. The grounding bar does not go anywhere else, i.e. there's no wire going to earth. We have no cell reception, so I need to install a booster. Standing in front and looking towards the house, the right side is where the best cell reception is for a directional antenna. Sadly, the left side is where the power meter is. I need to worry about:
1. Lightning strikes.
2. Equipment protection.
I'll be using a Wilson antenna, with a Wilson surge protection unit, grounded somewhere. Antenna will be near the gable on the right side of the house, so about 40ft high.
1. For Lightning protection, should i drive an 8ft rod into the ground on the right side of the house (two maybe, 8ft apart, to be sure) then put a ESE on top the the antenna J-mount and connect that with Class I conductor down the wall to the ground rods? Do I need to connect those grounding rods to the UFER, somehow? Should I strive to relocate the antenna to left side of house, same setup?
2. For equipment protection, Wilson sells an inline coax gas cartridge surge protection unit that I would like to connect to the grounding bar below the power meter. Given that it's on the other side of the house, do I run the coax to that side, install the inline coax surge protection unit there, then run the ground wire from it to the grounding bar (this would extend the wire run by quite a bit and drop the signal strength before it hits the booster inside)? Or do I install the inline coax surge protection on the right side of the house immediately after the antenna and before the coax enters the house and run the ground wire around the house and down to where the grounding bar is?
Thank you very much!
thank you all in advance for providing any advice and direction! I need wisdom and code compliance from the smarter-than-me heads in this forum.
I am so confused on what am I supposed to do. House is brand new, built in 2024, 3 stories, city follows IRC 2018 with GA 2020 and 2024 amendments and NEC 2023. I know there's UFER ground used, as in the garage I have a dual gang blank plate with a black PVC wire bonded with a clamp to a rebar. And I have photos/videos from when they built the house.
Interestingly, there is a single green wire coming out of the power meter company's meter going to a grounding bar, that's it. The grounding bar does not go anywhere else, i.e. there's no wire going to earth. We have no cell reception, so I need to install a booster. Standing in front and looking towards the house, the right side is where the best cell reception is for a directional antenna. Sadly, the left side is where the power meter is. I need to worry about:
1. Lightning strikes.
2. Equipment protection.
I'll be using a Wilson antenna, with a Wilson surge protection unit, grounded somewhere. Antenna will be near the gable on the right side of the house, so about 40ft high.
1. For Lightning protection, should i drive an 8ft rod into the ground on the right side of the house (two maybe, 8ft apart, to be sure) then put a ESE on top the the antenna J-mount and connect that with Class I conductor down the wall to the ground rods? Do I need to connect those grounding rods to the UFER, somehow? Should I strive to relocate the antenna to left side of house, same setup?
2. For equipment protection, Wilson sells an inline coax gas cartridge surge protection unit that I would like to connect to the grounding bar below the power meter. Given that it's on the other side of the house, do I run the coax to that side, install the inline coax surge protection unit there, then run the ground wire from it to the grounding bar (this would extend the wire run by quite a bit and drop the signal strength before it hits the booster inside)? Or do I install the inline coax surge protection on the right side of the house immediately after the antenna and before the coax enters the house and run the ground wire around the house and down to where the grounding bar is?
Thank you very much!
