? regarding service entrance grounding electrodes

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Mark, yep that's always been the primary reason for grounding but there are other reasons too. BTW… It only takes a couple seconds of one tenth of one amp to kill a person. What's your ground electrode actually able to handle - 6 amps or the whole 20 or 30 amp load? If it's not relatively close to the breakers rated load, the breaker won't trip and then one has a tendency to die if they get nailed by the residual.

There's a system reality test to see if your ground is safe... I'm not going to explain it here because I'm not going to promote the test for safety concerns.

As per lightening and conductors, yes, if properly set up they can handle the load. Lightening rods however do not attract lightening and don't work unless struck.


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