Vaisala AWS330 User Manual

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Chapter 4 _______________________________________________________________ Installation

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- The equipment grounding system and lightning protection grounding

system should be located as far as possible from each other. The
minimum recommended distance is 5 m (16 ft.). Due to this, the
lightning rod grounding cable is routed down from the top of the mast
via the guy wire which is isolated from the mast construction; refer to
number 2 in Figure 4 below. The equipment grounding should be done
near the mast block as illustrated in the figure.

1012-200

Figure 4

Location of Grounding Rods and Optional Grid,
Arrow Points to Mast Tilt Direction

The following numbers refer to Figure 4 above:
1 = Lightning protection grounding rod
2 = Guy wire block of the isolated guy wire 3
3 = Mast

block

4 = Optional grounding rod
5 = Optional

connecting

cable

6 = 5-meter minimum distance between the rods
7 = Equipment

grounding

rod

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