How to Ground Satellite Installation
Your satellite dish is an antenna outside your home bringing you hundreds of channels of television entertainment potentially in high definition. But the dish can also be a lightning rod. To protect all your equipment hooked up to your dish, including your television set, it's important to ground your dish.
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Instructions
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Place the grounding block on your house close to the entry point of your coaxial cable. Screwing the grounding block into your house to secure it. You may have to use anchors, togglers, or wood screws instead of the screws that come with the grounding block, depending on the surface on which you are mounting the grounding block.
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Run the coaxial cable and the ground wire from the bottom of the mast to the grounding block. The mast is the pole that your dish sits on.
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Screw the coaxial cable onto the block like you are connecting the cable to the back of your television. Run the ground through the ground hole on the block and tighten the screw.
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Locate the most convenient central building ground. A central building ground could be a grounded interior metal cold water pipe that is within five feet of the point where the pipe enters the building, an electrical service equipment enclosure or an eight-foot grounding rod driven into the ground.
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Run the ground wire from the grounding block to your central building ground and secure the wire to that location. If you don't have a designated spot to secure your ground wire, you can attach the wire to the metal by driving a screw over the end of the wire into the metal tight enough that the wire will not come out. The wire must contact the ground surface.
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Tips & Warnings
If you're running the ground wire along a building, use wire clamps to secure the wire to the building. If you're running the ground wire along the ground, bury the wire deep enough to avoid weather damage.
References
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