I just recently had dish install a dish 1000 plus. The installer did not ground the dish. I have read some previous posts and it was not clear to me weather or not it has to be grounded. If someone can clarify it for me would be great. The installer told me since I do not have any cables running outside my house that I do not need a ground. The cables are ran threw the attic and down the walls to the receivers.
Ground 1000 Plus
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NEC code requires that ALL dishes be grounded. As a Field Manager for DNS, I can tell you that the job would fail a quality inspection on the sole point of not being grounded. If you call the phone number that comes on your bill and let them know that the system is not grounded and demand a tech to come and fix it, they should do it for no charge. It's a big liability for you as well as DISH. Just this summer I saw a case where a dish took a lightning strike. The lightning didn't hit the dish directly, but rather it came down a tree next to the house, then jumped over to the dish...leaving a 6 inch hole in the tree. The dish was in pieces, and all the receivers, tvs, and phones in the house were toast. Totalled about $7,000 in damages. Get it grounded!
Ive seen a few dozen indirect lightning strikes to homes with dishes and though most werent grounded even the grounded ones didnt fair any better nor did the customers homes, the best line of defence besides unplugging everything and throwing the main braker is a good surge suppressor on your equipment or a whole house surge suppressor.
True....but here's the killer. In all reality, that #10 copper wire IS NOT going to stop a lightning bolt carrying millions of volts. It's like pissing on a brush fire. The real issue is liability. Let's say for instance that your system is not grounded, and it takes a lightning strike. Direct or indirect really doesn't matter. So you contact your homeowners insurance for replacement for your TVs or other equipment, and the adjuster tells you, sorry....since the system not being grounded is why your stuff is fried. You need to contact your installer for reimbusement because of their poor installation. So then you contact your install company who keeps blowing you off for weeks while you're sitting there without TV getting more and more pissed as the days go by. Then you wind up going to court...... It goes on and on and on. NEC code says that it needs to be grounded....so does you insurance company. Consider that.
I agree with Van. I myself have seen more problems with gounded systems than ones that are not. No Joke. However to cover my ass and for the sake of liablity that is why I ground my installs.
I agree!!!!
Grounded or not, a direct hit is going to cook everything anyway!!!!
Here's an indirect hit example: lightning hit chimney, jumped over ten feet and blew a hole in roof. It traveled to electric lines in attic and attacked everything electrical in house: all TV's, three sat receivers, all VCRs, microwave oven, overhead fans, wall swithches - you name it. Dish on side of house was grounded - "it just doesn't matter" Quote by Bill Murray - Meatballs
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I can understand why some installs are not grounded being based on the available grounding source and the location of the dish itself, along with point of entry and IRD location.
But when the option is clearly available, it's just a lazy installer IMHO.
MDU's are another thing.
But when the option is clearly available, it's just a lazy installer IMHO.
MDU's are another thing.
I agree also. Don't get me wrong. Like I said before, that little 10 gauge copper wire isn't really gonna stop anything. It should be done however purely for liability reasons if for nothing else.
Lightning it's hands down, nogo.
Static electricity from the wind, I'd say so.
Meet code and liability, yep.
Static electricity from the wind, I'd say so.
Meet code and liability, yep.
