Ground My New Slimline How?

[Macwarrior]

Hi all,

In the great wisdom of DTV tech support I was told to attach the copper grounding wire to the Slimline and lay the copper wire on the roof and run it to the ground. Say What?

Forgive me, I am not an electrician, but won't the roof blow up? OK, maybe not blow up, but catch fire or something if the copper wire is laying on the roof & it takes a strike and follows it to the ground like it's suppose to?

I have grounding rods close to the dish. But I do need to get it down the roof (pitched) and down the side. I don't trust DTV installers since my current dish has a 14 gauge wire about 6 inches long attached to the grounding screw laying on my roof.

Should I use standoffs? Or I was thinking about running the ground wire through a 1/2" PVC pipe down the back side of the roof. Of course, tastefully spray painted the same color of the roof. Will this work?

Or am I way off base here? What should I do?

Thanks,

MacWarrior

 

[iwc5893]

Hi all,

In the great wisdom of DTV tech support I was told to attach the copper grounding wire to the Slimline and lay the copper wire on the roof and run it to the ground. Say What?

Forgive me, I am not an electrician, but won't the roof blow up? OK, maybe not blow up, but catch fire or something if the copper wire is laying on the roof & it takes a strike and follows it to the ground like it's suppose to?

I have grounding rods close to the dish. But I do need to get it down the roof (pitched) and down the side. I don't trust DTV installers since my current dish has a 14 gauge wire about 6 inches long attached to the grounding screw laying on my roof.

Should I use standoffs? Or I was thinking about running the ground wire through a 1/2" PVC pipe down the back side of the roof. Of course, tastefully spray painted the same color of the roof. Will this work?

Or am I way off base here? What should I do?

Thanks,

MacWarrior

Hate to bust your bubble, but if your dish takes a lightning strike, the 10 ga. wire that is connected won't do squat. I don't care how big of a wire you run, your house will still sustain damage. The purpose of grounding is to give static electricity a path to safely discharge, not to divert 1.21 gigawatts of electricty p) from the lightning.

 

[memory]

Hate to bust your bubble, but if your dish takes a lightning strike, the 10 ga. wire that is connected won't do squat. I don't care how big of a wire you run, your house will still sustain damage. The purpose of grounding is to give static electricity a path to safely discharge, not to divert 1.21 gigawatts of electricty p) from the lightning.

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I have tears running down my face LOL!!!!!!!!

 

[iwc5893]

ALL I can say is HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA


I have tears running down my face LOL!!!!!!!!

You're welcome!

 

[Macwarrior]

Hate to bust your bubble, but if your dish takes a lightning strike, the 10 ga. wire that is connected won't do squat. I don't care how big of a wire you run, your house will still sustain damage. The purpose of grounding is to give static electricity a path to safely discharge, not to divert 1.21 gigawatts of electricty p) from the lightning.

Yeah: 5 gauge, 6 gauge, what ever it takes.

1.21 GIGAWATTS? :yikes

OK, like I said, I'm not an electrician. But like the blind man said - Ahhhh, now I see. So it doesn't matter. :clap

Things that make you go huummmm.

MacWarrior

 

[iwc5893]

Sorry, I just couldn't resist the "Back to the Future" reference.