bud-- wrote:
E Z Peaces wrote:



I told him I thought bonding had saved me. He beat around the bush
for 20 minutes, then said the code requires it but it's phone-company
policy not to comply. He said surges usually come in on the power
company's neutral. If the electrodes are bonded, the clamping of the
phone company's SE protector can send the surge into the phone line.
That's why he had to replace his fuses.

It should be illegal to be that stupid.

They're $aving fu$e$. A corporation's duty is to maximize profits.

If a strong surge on power wires is earthed through its ground rod the
potential at the distant phone ground rod can be thousands of volts
different.

The distance between a cow's hooves is enough to wipe out a herd when
lightning strikes a nearby tree.

His BIL is a power-company executive. He said I was right. So my
neighbor had the phone guy return. This time the phone guy admitted
that the code required bonding and it was the phone company's
responsibility. He said he would expedite it if my neighbor would
give him free music lessons. My neighbor agreed, but the phone man
never returned and the electrodes are still not bonded.

It sure inspires confidence when you know what to do and the utility
still does it wrong.

The phone company should be liable for any damage.

You could try a complaint to whatever agency regulates the phone company
to get compliance at all installations. In MN some dish installers were
required to go back and properly bond their installations.

It must be widely known. I suspect that Bellsouth owns NC regulators.
My neighbor calls himself a handyman but won't take ten minutes and ten
cents to remedy the problem.


That example uses a TV plugged into a different outlet from the
cable protector. Wouldn't it be better to plug the TV into an
extension cord daisy chained with the cable protector?

It would be better than what is shown. A lot better idea to not use
an extension cord from the TV to the suppressor and use a second
suppressor. They aren't real expensive (unless you only buy Monster
products like w).

Are you talking about something other than daisy chaining?

I don’t like daisy chaining. I am talking about a separate suppressor at
the 2nd TV plugged into the outlet at the 2nd TV with the cable wire
going through it. (It is what the IEEE guide says to do.)

In that case, if during a strike, the ground at one outlet is far
different from the ground at the other, won't you get a surge through
the shield of the cable? Won't that induce high voltage in the signal
conductor? I believe a cable company uses special technology to deal
with the problem between their facility and your service entrance, but
it's your problem within your house.