Bare Copper Wire In Attic

The staples themselves dig into the wood and further increase the bond.

Bare copper wire in attic.

The infamous attic dipole. 8 gauge solid sd. Bare copper ground wires do not need to be capped. Turn the wire nut clockwise.

View the southwire company solid soft drawn bare copper grounding wire assortment 34 17 1 37 ft 34 17 1 37 ft free delivery with 45 order. Needless to say we had to pull the wire out and start over w a insulated egc lol. With time bare copper oxidizes the wood where the wire is tightly stapled to absorbs some of this oxidization and forms a loose yet lossy bond with the wire. Similarly bx cable s metal armor sheathing which conducts to ground without the need for an additional ground wire may be left alone.

Maybe i misread the ops statement. But if you could elaborate a little more on the fields canceling one another. I thought he was talking about using bare vs insulated to prevent unintentional grounding i e. Bare copper wire in attic while putting some flooring in the attic so i can use it for storage i noticed there were bare copper wires running across the rafters and on top of the insulation.

I pulled the copper wire through the trusses to the other. Bare copper antenna wire stapled directly on wood rafters causes loss of rf signal energy. Wire nuts that are too small may initially feel like they are on the wire but they too may fall off. I was just thinking a bare copper wire inside a ferrous metal tube could cause unintentional grounding.

To make a long story short the bare copper egc dug into the al elbow during the pull and the forman decided to parallel 2 tuggers together along w a cumalong what a rig that was. The cumalong snapped shot the kid in the shin. It began as a simple coax fed doublet right out of the arrl handbook. Set your store to see local availability add to cart.

When going to the kitchen i noticed that the boxes were metal and there was bare copper grounding wire connected to the box not coming out of the romex it was a separate bare copper wire. Well i traced this wire up to the attic and found a spider web of bare copper wire. Two 35 equal legs of 14 gauge bare stranded copper wire 35 of radio shack rg58 coax three of my son s plastic blocks for insulators and nylon rope. Remember that the main thing which defines this cable as cat6 rated over.

These wires run to switches and outlets in the house below so i m assuming they are the ground wire for these.