Originally Posted by
Tom M King
One thing you absolutely don't want is multiple, separate grounds in a system. All the grounds need to be tied together (bonded).
?? Just trying to visualize the layout.
His main panel will have a grounding electrode of some sort at his house. And it sounds like he has a sub panel in his workshop. We don’t know if his workshop is attached or detached, so it is possible he could have another set of electrodes at his workshop.
He wants to install a sub panel “way down by the river” minus 50’. This sub panel will need to have an equipment ground conductor from the workshop sub panel, that should have an equipment ground conductor from the main panel; plus it’s own river sub panel grounding electrode system, possibly hundreds of feet away from the workshop.
The river sub panel’s grounding electrode system‘s conductor will land on the equipment grounding bar in the sub panel, as will the equipment grounding conductor from the workshop sub which originates from main, but he won’t bond the rods at the river location with the main house rods in the traditional sense, will he?
I am thinking it should look like this, shouldn’t it?
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Last edited by Charlie Velasquez; 06-03-2021 at 7:44 PM.
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