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brianl703

join:2004-02-26
Manassas, VA

reply to burner50
Re: TV throwing back electricity to my cable

said by burner50 See Profile :

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
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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
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join:2001-07-14
SoCal

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said by Clearpix See Profile :

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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said by burner50 See Profile :

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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