Question re rigging pole with fence charger

[Guest]

The 3 ground rods when installed this way is known as a Triad Ground.It has many stated reasons for its use and when it is used by companies in their complexes,it is required by and strictly enforced by their in plant personnel and written specifications.It is not a "National Eletrical Code" requirement,at least at my last reading..

The fence charger manufacturer may and I say that with tongue in cheek, may be from the compliment of folks who think that if a ground wire or an earth return path from your residential ground grid carrying fault current were bonded to this Triad that the fault current would be dissipated within the Triad and take just a milli second longer to do it and maybe just maybe there would not be fault current traveling to the charger via its earth ground wire thus rendering it to a non functional mode.

I am not saying not to use it as your manufacturer may use it to protect himself etc but I personally think it is over kill.

Here is a quote from a discusion on this subject copied from the internet and one persons theory,I agree with some of it ,disagree with other parts of it but don't see where any part of it applies to predator control,LOL

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Triad grounding is important in order to facilitate periodic testing of the effective grounding system. Three rods are buried and connected with insulated cable (probably 90 mm), ofcourse the insulation of that part of the cable which is bolted to the rod is removed. Test pits allowing access to the top of each rod.
In order to effectively test the ground resistance the rest of the grounding system must be disconnected from the rod, if only a single rod was buried then for the duration of the test the system would be ungrounded which is extremely dangerous, the three rods and their interconnections allow this testing to occur and also eliminate the need for a test rod to be driven as 2 out of the 3 rods can be disconnected and the earth resistance test done while the third rod maintains an effective ground. The distance between the rods is usually equal to or a bit more than the length of the rod in order to avoid interference and thus provide a true measurement of the earth resistance at that point. This system also facilitates redundancy and increased availability of the grounding system and is used mainly for grounding of instrumentation and computerized systems and so is isolated (except for a single bond) from the plant (dirty) earthing network which may be buried bare copper, rods and building rebar etc.

dick

[j arnett]

hi Dwigt
did you try to use sand around the base of the house. take the sod off about 2 feet diameter and use white sand it looks better and snakes and racoon dont like it. make it 2 or 3 inches thick.
good luck

[Guest]

j arnett,
that sounds like a good idea. What about pea gravel? A fellow landlord is using that and it looks good, but don't know if it would be a deterrent.