I want to install phone service in an existing home that has no existing phone system. According to the phone company, I must provide "a ground" for the phone junction box. I assume this comes from NEC 800.100, and that this would be a 'grounding conductor, equipment.'
I can easily install #6 wire in conduit from the location of the phone junction box to the crawlspace under the house. Unfortunately, it would be difficult to run to the service entrance panel. However, I could use a C-clamp to attach directly to the grounding electrode conductor, which is readily accessible in the crawlspace.
My questions are as follows:
1. Is 800.100 the appropriate article for phone system grounding?
2. Am I correct in interpreting the 800.100 as an EGC ?
3. Does the NEC allow connecting an equipment grounding conductor directly to the GEC rather than connecting at a panel?
4. Does the NEC allow connecting anything at all to the GEC? (I ask, since I noticed the GEC is also serving as a bond across the water heater . It is clamped to both hot and cold pipes where it passes by them on it's way to the water pipe inlet location near the street).
Thanks.
I can easily install #6 wire in conduit from the location of the phone junction box to the crawlspace under the house. Unfortunately, it would be difficult to run to the service entrance panel. However, I could use a C-clamp to attach directly to the grounding electrode conductor, which is readily accessible in the crawlspace.
My questions are as follows:
1. Is 800.100 the appropriate article for phone system grounding?
2. Am I correct in interpreting the 800.100 as an EGC ?
3. Does the NEC allow connecting an equipment grounding conductor directly to the GEC rather than connecting at a panel?
4. Does the NEC allow connecting anything at all to the GEC? (I ask, since I noticed the GEC is also serving as a bond across the water heater . It is clamped to both hot and cold pipes where it passes by them on it's way to the water pipe inlet location near the street).
Thanks.
