Grounding

[nkalghatgi]

I have a lighting load center. I connect a #2 bare copper conductor from the load center to a ground rod. Is this bare copper conductor called 'Equipment Grounding conductor'.

 

[jumper]

No, that would be a Grounding Electrode Conductor.

 

[kwired]

It is a grounding electrode conductor. Whether it is properly applied will depend on more information about the installation.

Is this a panel supplied by service conductors, or maybe the main disconnect of a building supplied from another building or structure?

Is it a panel supplied by other panel in same building? Or supplied by a transformer or other source in the same building?

 

[petersonra]

I have a lighting load center. I connect a #2 bare copper conductor from the load center to a ground rod. Is this bare copper conductor called 'Equipment Grounding conductor'.

I agree with the other posters that it is a GEC.

Whether it is necessary, properly sized, or appropriate is something that we cannot tell from the limited information you supplied. Incidentally, in most cases if you are using a ground rod as your grounding electrode system, you will likely actually need to have two of them.

 

[iwire]

I have a lighting load center. I connect a #2 bare copper conductor from the load center to a ground rod. Is this bare copper conductor called 'Equipment Grounding conductor'.

Which better describes the conductor?

Grounding Conductor, Equipment (EGC). The conductive
path(s) installed to connect normally non?current-carrying
metal parts of equipment together and to the system grounded
conductor or to the grounding electrode conductor, or both.


Grounding Electrode Conductor. A conductor used to
connect the system grounded conductor or the equipment to
a grounding electrode or to a point on the grounding electrode
system.

Article 100 is always a good place to start with this kind of question.

 

[jumper]

Good answer Bob/iwire.:thumbsup: