Don,
As you know, I got a call this morning from the power company allowing the SEGC to be attached in the meter compartment. So there is no reason to fail the job because of the power company anymore, or the "assesible" rule. I also kinda agree with Roger about the "placebo" effect of 2 ground rods. I feel that if you get one ground rod down in the soil, and it is really in there good and solid, then it should be good enough. Where I inspect though, I work in 4 different towns and the soils in each town is very different. 1 town is subject to flooding, 1 town is a bottom of an old lake and it is very sandy, 1 town is very mountainous and it is very hard to get an 8 foot ground rod in the ground at all, and 1 town is a combo of mountains and soft soil. It the soft soil towns, you can almost push the ground rods in by hand 8 foot down. Is this rod good for 25 ohms? I doubt it. (Put in two rods) in the town that is all mountains, the rods go in very hard. good connection but most houses are wells, no city water connections, so 2 rods are better. The combination town also has city water, so if you get a good hard driven ground rod, the 1 rod is more than likely good enough.
Harold
