burner50
Pinlifter
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join:2002-06-05
Broken Rail | reply to claydean
Re: TV throwing back electricity to my cable
Best answer right there...
Your cable system should be bonded to the electrical ground |
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brianl703
join:2004-02-26
Manassas, VA
| said by burner50  :Best answer right there... Your cable system should be bonded to the electrical ground That is required by the NEC. Cable companies used to be terrible about just driving a new ground rod and grounding the cable to it without bonding it to the building ground. |
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Clearpix
join:2008-01-17
Wilmington, DE |  The cable at my old house was bonded to the gas meter when I moved in. They changed it soon as I pointed it out to them. Talk about scary! |
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burner50
Pinlifter
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join:2002-06-05
Broken Rail | I've found that before...
Bonded to a gas line right, Somebody thought it was a water line. |
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MacLeech
The one and only
Premium,MVM
join:2001-07-14
SoCal
| reply to Clearpix
said by Clearpix :The cable at my old house was bonded to the gas meter when I moved in. They changed it soon as I pointed it out to them. Talk about scary! Bonding to gas??? phhhh.... I know of two techs who DRILLED through it... one a gas pipe in the wall, the other a gas meter on the other side of the wall.
Not sure how, I wasn't there, but I figured they'd stop drilling if they hit metal... guess not. |
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beerbum
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join:2000-05-06
Here!
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said by burner50 :I've found that before... Bonded to a gas line right, Somebody thought it was a water line. I've seen catv "bonded" to the heating oil inlet pipe a few times.. one tech (who is no longer employed) thought it was ok to strip 5" of the ground wire and stick the wire into the ground..
I could go on of the ingeniously stupid things I've found on QC's.. |
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