Is this grounding and bonding analogy correct?

[electrofelon]

Thanks.

So, do all bonded components eventually connect to the grounding rod?

Yes, but the ground rod doesn't do anything. It's like lock washers: 100 years ago someone thought they were good idea, but they don't do anything and every one is scared to stop using them. The "eventually" part in your sentence should be the main bonding jumper at the service that connects the bonded stuff to the grounded conductor where current can then get back to the source.

 

[Dsg319]

Yes, but the ground rod doesn't do anything. It's like lock washers: 100 years ago someone thought they were good idea, but they don't do anything and every one is scared to stop using them. The "eventually" part in your sentence should be the main bonding jumper at the service that connects the bonded stuff to the grounded conductor where current can then get back to the source.

Glad I’m not the only one who doesn’t believe in lock washers

 

[don_resqcapt19]

Take a look at this.

You keep posting that, but proposals to make NEC change by the author were routinely thrown out by CMP 5 as having no technical substantiation.

 

[mtnelect]

You keep posting that, but proposals to make NEC change by the author were routinely thrown out by CMP 5 as having no technical substantiation.

My issue is with the utilities and how they ground their transformers. I have discovered that the California Public Utilities Commission controls each of the utilities Electric Design Manuals, so I am going in that direction, but their grounding designs do have an effect on the NEC.