Wiley
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Joey, I built my home and when I was inspected my the state electrical inspector he demanded that I change the ground wire from ending at the well casing (after connecting to the ground rod) to a situation where the last item connected was the ground rod. So the ground wire went: panel to well casing to ground rod rather than panel to ground rod to casing. I inquired why as I would think a steel well casing with over a hundred and fifty foot in the ground and filled fifty foot with water was the real ground. He said it was code.If you are not going to code is their something metallic in the ground already that you can bond to.
Like a well casing or similar?
Anybody know of a reason not to do that?
The only other thing he corrected was I didn't have a explosion proof gas seal where the wires to my septic pump entered the pump tank. The only one I could find locally was made of metal and fortunately I had him inspect it before I filled it with the cement mixture as he then said it needed to be grounded (the fitting) even though it was the only metal in the conduit.
Code: sometimes it's easier to comply than fight. The inspector was the person who suggested I use a "Ufer ground" for my shop building.