u/Apprehensive_Chip550

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Lots of unanswered questions.

Where do I need ground and neutral bonded?
Where do I need a ground rod?
Where do I need ground just run between the panels?

200 amp breaker is at meter and then feeds the 200 amp auto transfer switch.
from ATS goes into mobile home master panel.
at HMP it dog legs out to the detached garage with 12/2. Two breakers, 11 amps total.

On the antennas....
have a 45' tower with 60' coax that goes to the antenna discharge tubes (ADTs). a ground wire would be approximately 14'. do I use like 10 gauge and run the 14' to the antenna ground rod? Or do I put a ground rod beside ADTs and then run 6 gauge to the antenna ground rod?

Does the antenna ground rod and the meter ground rod need to be linked together with 6 gauge? If a ground rod was added for the ADTs, how does that play into the above?

Do I ground the radio power supplies and radios to the antenna ground rod or keep it on the house ground rod? The 2500va pure sine-wave battery backup currently feeds three rooms with tons of electronics. It's a mobile home, so very easy to just run cabling underneath to connect the entertainment center to the office and the PCs in the adjacent room.

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I use a ground rod simply for earthing/meditation and did that thinking it was for lightning protection and not dealing with the dirty energy of AC devices. I have the 10 megaohm or maybe 1 megaohm plugged into the cable anyway. Do I ground this with 6 gauge to the meter ground rod? Do I leave it alone? Someone may hit the phone pole at the street and cause a short that goes down the meter ground rod (if it can?). Meter loop gets hit by lightning would mean I could be the grounding target if currently meditating.

u/Apprehensive_Chip550 — 3 days ago