I am installing two ClearStream 2V antennas on my roof. One is for the living room one is at the back of the house for one of the bedrooms. I have been reading up about how to properly ground the mast but i am still unclear on how to do it and what type to wire to use.
For the front room there is a ground rod where the cable tv and phone lines were grounded. This is where i was going to ground the coaxial cable but i still need to ground the mast. I was going to sink a separate ground rod and run a cable over the roof edge and ground it that way (cable would be about 20 foot long). Then i read that that it needs to be wired to the electrical box for it to be a proper ground. I could run it across the roof to the back of the house where the electric meter is but that is going to take 40 foot of cable.
I had planned on using #8 solid THHN wire for a ground. But when i got to my home improvement store all they sold for outdoor use was stranded THHN. They sold spools of solid THHN #10 so i bought that but then when i read he spool it said it was for indoor use. So now i have no idea what i am doing and what thickness or type of wire i should even buy. Is #10 thick enough for 40 feet to the electric box? My house has quite a bit of overhang and i know you cant put sharp bends in ground wire so i am just going to let it dangle instead of trying to wrap it under the eave. Should i be using stranded or solid and what gauge and does it really need to be outdoor rated since its just a ground wire?
For the front room there is a ground rod where the cable tv and phone lines were grounded. This is where i was going to ground the coaxial cable but i still need to ground the mast. I was going to sink a separate ground rod and run a cable over the roof edge and ground it that way (cable would be about 20 foot long). Then i read that that it needs to be wired to the electrical box for it to be a proper ground. I could run it across the roof to the back of the house where the electric meter is but that is going to take 40 foot of cable.
I had planned on using #8 solid THHN wire for a ground. But when i got to my home improvement store all they sold for outdoor use was stranded THHN. They sold spools of solid THHN #10 so i bought that but then when i read he spool it said it was for indoor use. So now i have no idea what i am doing and what thickness or type of wire i should even buy. Is #10 thick enough for 40 feet to the electric box? My house has quite a bit of overhang and i know you cant put sharp bends in ground wire so i am just going to let it dangle instead of trying to wrap it under the eave. Should i be using stranded or solid and what gauge and does it really need to be outdoor rated since its just a ground wire?
