Raj
TreeHouser
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The fourth wire and the driven grounds in reality are pretty useless Jim. Some counties/towns require it, some don't here. The power company only installs one neutral, why should the customer have to install two? In most soil, you're just as well to stick a toothpick in the ground as an eight foot ground rod. I've driven and tested miles of ground rods through the years and if you don't get down at least 30 or 40' here you're wasting your time and money.Trenched over to the well with the backhoe so we could bury the electric. Hopefully we get her pumping tomorrow.
Sucks now that I have to bury a fourth wire in the trench. I am burying a 2,2,4 tri plex but now you have to install a fourth wire for the ground. Of course, the meter panel has the common and ground busses bonded so the panel at the well 200 feet away is considered a sub panel. So after installing a No. 6 soft drawn copped to two ground rods you still have to run the fourth wire.
The panel at the well will not be bonded as it is considered a sub panel, but has a bare copper to a ground rod, a common buss, and a ground wire! I had to install ground lugs as this panel did not have a ground buss.
Alotta dang work to stay legal and water some cows!
Hey Fiddler, what's this job all about? You've been at it a while, what's the situation? What machine are you using?heading out for another week of fun-filled stump grinding...y'all have a safe and care-free week now...