Grounding to baseboard radiant heat copper pipe

[Shock96]

Hi all. I have a home built in 1954 and it has the old 2 wire outlets throughout the home.

I was wondering if I could run a green coated ground wire to the baseboard radiant heater.

The system runs in a continuous loop from and back to a modern oil fired boiler. It is all copper 3/4 with the aluminum fins.

I could either run a larger gauge ground wire out to a ground rod in the ground or back to the main panel.

Each outlet would be grounded no more than 24" max from the outlet to the ground point.

Now, reading the code is a little vague on this. Especially since that this system will always remain copper and never be "upgraded" to plastic.

What do you guys think?

 

[George Stolz]

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