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Monday, March 23, 2015

Grounding Bar and Lightning Arrestors.

This is the box I am building for my grounding bar that will ground my antennas. I am using the Model ATT/TT3G50B and an MFJ to the left of the Alpha Delta arrestors. The box is a 8"x8"x4" Carlon pvc from Home Depot. The actual ground bar is the Alpha Delta BGWM Copper Ground Bus Wall Mount. I had to modify it so that it would fit in the box by hack sawing the two ears on each end of it that are used for wall mounting. You can see it in its factory configuration in Figure 2. Coax will enter from the top of the box in Figure 1 and exit at the bottom. Notice the 4 "N male to UHF" connectors that had to be added to the arrestors. The MFJ on the left already has the UHF females on it so none needed there. The arrestors are suppose to be water resistant and can be mounted in the open as shown in Figure 2. I just wanted to clean them up in a box. Didn't want the grand kids or neighborhood kids messing with them in case they were to get past the fence in the back. On the right side of the bar you will notice there are 2 ground lugs for attaching bare copper wire to attach to your ground rod(s). I will post a pic of the finished box once it is mounted with coax and ground wire attached. One of the Alpha Deltas will have a 102' dipole attached to it and the other will have a Jetstream JTB3 attached to it. The MFJ will have a scanner antenna attached.



Figure 1

Figure 2

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