On 02/25/04 08:49 am Minnie Bannister put fingers to keyboard and
launched the following message into cyberspace:

On 02/25/04 01:25 am w_tom put fingers to keyboard and launched the
following message into cyberspace:

They should have routed satellite dish wire to service
entrance to be earthed, less than 10 feet to the AC electric
earth ground. Only then does cable rise back up to enter
building. Recently, many cable companies are now just
starting to do this. Dish satellite installers cannot be
bothered; too much work. Apparently they get paid by the job;
meeting code is irrelevant. No help for you. But when that
cable enters building, it must, at minimum, connected right
there to an earth ground rod. Again, to bond that ground rod
to AC electric, see above pictures and concept from cinergy.com . A
halo ground solves many problems.


What are my chances of "leaning on" the installers and having them
rectify the situation? Can they legally be compelled to come back and do
it right?

Or what about running the cables through a grounding block at the
satellite box, then running the grounding wire back out through the wall
to a ground rod that will be connected to this halo ground (yet to be
installed)? Not grest, perhaps, but better than nothing, I guess. (And
what if the "halo ground" does not completely surround the building? How
would I get it across/under the driveway, for example?)

Or, now that I think about it further, it seems it would be much better
to run my own ground wire from the dish to a ground rod connected to the
halo ground.

And when I looked again at the diagram on the Cinergy Website, I saw
that it does depict a ground that goes only partway round the building.
I was confusing it with another diagram showing the ground wire going
all the way around the building.

MB