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In Reply to: Home electrical system grounding posted by MMasztal on July 4, 2006 at 08:17:37:
Chemical grounding works by providing an ionized water solution improving electrical conductivity between the ground rod and the earth. While you may reduce the resistance to ground, the chemicals over time can erode the very copper ground rod which provides you with grouding in the first place. Therefore such gounding systems have to be periodically inspected and maintained. When it is completely eroded, you will have no grounding at all. You will not be protected from electrical accidents or failures a grounding system is designed to provide. No insurance company in the world would protect you in the event of an accident under such circumstances and you will own the consequences yourself. Depending what chemicals you add to the soil, you may also be in violation of local ordinances and EPA laws protecting the ground from polution. Chemical grounds are sometimes used where very low impedence grounds are necessary for sensitive scientific equipment (not the case for a home audio system.) They would be redundant in addition to the normal grounding point, not a substitution for one. Contrary to a posting below, all grounds in a community are not tied together. Each service entrance is grounded separately. If you live in a multiple dwelling steel frame building, then they are. If you live in a wood frame house, each home has a separate ground.
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Follow Ups
- Chemical grounding entails risks - Soundmind 05:36:58 07/05/06 (8)
- Let me add that I said nothing about chemical grounding. Diatomaceous earth is ground sea shells. nt - Norm 06:46:28 07/05/06 (6)
- Not ground. Diatomae are microscopic creatures with a silicous exoskeleton - Jacques 07:04:28 07/05/06 (5)
- South Florida has much sand and base rock is very deep - Norm 08:39:05 07/05/06 (3)
- Re: South Florida has much sand and base rock is very deep - jneutron 10:15:51 07/05/06 (2)
- That I proposed to violate code and that what I suggested violate technical considerations - Norm 11:03:11 07/05/06 (1)
- I believe his point was to get someone who knows code well in the locale.. - jneutron 11:39:29 07/05/06 (0)
- I did not know that! Thank you. nt - clarkjohnsen 08:35:55 07/05/06 (0)
- More nonsense. If you knew anything, you would know that enhanced grounding firms have dealt with such problems. - Norm 06:17:07 07/05/06 (0)
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