Lightning protection [RE-wrenches]

Ray Walters ray at solarray.com
Mon Jul 25 19:25:10 PDT 2005


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What was your source for the sectioned ground rods? I guess they thread 
together, and have some sort of drill tip on the first section? We were 
trying to set up our SDS plus hammer drill to drive ground rods, but I 
think its a little too small for the job.

Ray

At 07:08 PM 7/25/2005, you wrote:


>--- "Travis Creswell, Ozark Solar" <ozsolar at ipa.net>
>wrote:
> > How does one drive a ground rod 80'?   Must be very
>sandy soil which
> > explains the need for such
> > a long ground rod.
>
>Yes, I used a Bosch electric pavement breaker with a
>ground rod driver attachment.
> > In trouble spots around here the utilities will
> > auger a hole in the soil
> > then pack it with bentonite (sp?) clay and drive the
> > ground rod in that.
> > Travis
>
>That sounds like a good idea, however prior to driving
>the 80 foot rods, I buried 300 feet of 2/0 bare wire
>to no benifit.
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Darryl Thayer [mailto:daryl_solar at yahoo.com]
> > Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 9:19 AM
> > Subject: RE: Lightning protection [RE-wrenches]
> >
> > The soil was sandy, the site was remote from the
> > standalone house, the house had a well, but the
> > site 600 feet away did not.
>
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Ray Walters
ray at solarray.com
President, SolarRay, Inc.
NABCEP Certified Solar PV Installer
BS Mechanical Engineering, UT Austin 88
Returned US Peace Corps Volunteer 

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