VIASATELLITE said:
Are you nuts? You never ground to black pipe. But if you do, make sure your insurance policy is up to date with enough coverage. You'll need it!
Not black pipe. A grounding rod driven into the ground that the gas meters are grounded to. Or maybe that guy's apartment is going to asplode one day.
Ah well, it seems that I have yet to see any straight answer from anyone about where to ground a dish, only gleeful admonitions about where
not to ground a dish, and complaints about how crappy installers are always grounding wrong. I even found a site that was full of nothing but how not to ground your dish. Absolutely
NOTHING about how to properly ground it, but plenty of "whoo! lookit that! that guy's house is gonna blowd up!"
I think that based on the number of questions regarding this, coupled with the number of 'doom and gloom' posters I've seen about how much death, property damage, destruction, and armageddon that can be caused by a non or improperly grounded dish, that this should be the one thing that should be covered in a FAQ of some kind. It should cover everything: grounding the dish in your home, apartment, bootleg condo installation, camper, deer camp tent, RV, boat, submarine, skyscraper, out in the middle of the desert, whatever. It should be centrally located, with a clear link to it. It should be the first page in the "So, you bought a new dish" installation guide.
I'm beginning to think that this is a conspiracy brought about by electricians, who have the
sekret of how to ground your dish, but will not tell you how to do it. They'll do it
for you, but if you ever post something on a DBS forum site like "Hey everyone, lookit I got a 'lectritian to ground my dish!" there will be 25 replies in the thread from people saying that he did it wrong and you have now put your life and your family's lives at grave risk, and you deserve the lightning bolt that will surely fry every electronic device in your house, including your pacemaker. See you on the six o'clock news.
Look, all we want to do is watch TV on the superior picture that satellite provides, and do it without invoking Thor's +5 Hammer of Extreme Voltage upon our houses. Can we get an honest, definitive answer on where to ground the frakin' dish? I know there's a "code" out there, but it's in Contractoreeze; an English explaination would be appreciated. It's almost enough to make a potential DBS customer say "Screw this, it looks like a dish can
kill me, I'm going back to cable."
Fortunately, I am insured by USAA.
