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That is definitely different than it is here. All houses, unless they have a really old electrical system (such as knob and two, which was phased out around 1930), have a ground rod immediately under the electrical meter, and other services such as cable connections are also connection directly to this ground rod. Further, many telephone poles have have wires running down under the earth (as they are bare wires I assume they are earthing wires?), so the typical house has several ground connections between them and the substation, and this isn't factoring in all of the other houses and their ground rods that are connected to said power lines that are en route. From what I understand it is like this across the US.

I would guess that in your case the goal is to keep the electrical lines from dealing with lightening strikes directly, while in my case the system is designed to dissipate said strike as much as possible over a wide area?.

I wonder, do you have more buried electrical cables than we have? I don't see the setup you have being as feasible with overhead wires unless they took other precautions as well...

All this being said, I am not an electrician, so there may be more to all of this than I realize...

The DB

<blockquote data-quote="The DB" data-source="post: 745583" data-attributes="member: 21346">That is definitely different than it is here.&nbsp; All houses, unless they have a really old electrical system (such as knob and two, which was phased out around 1930), have a ground rod immediately under the electrical meter, and other services such as cable connections are also connection directly to this ground rod.&nbsp; Further, many telephone poles have have wires running down under the earth (as they are bare wires I assume they are earthing wires?), so the typical house has several ground connections between them and the substation, and this isn&#039;t factoring in all of the other houses and their ground rods that are connected to said power lines that are en route.&nbsp; From what I understand it is like this across the US.I would guess that in your case the goal is to keep the electrical lines from dealing with lightening strikes directly, while in my case the system is designed to dissipate said strike as much as possible over a wide area?.I wonder, do you have more buried electrical cables than we have?&nbsp; I don&#039;t see the setup you have being as feasible with overhead wires unless they took other precautions as well...All this being said, I am not an electrician, so there may be more to all of this than I realize...The DB</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The DB, post: 745583, member: 21346"] That is definitely different than it is here. All houses, unless they have a really old electrical system (such as knob and two, which was phased out around 1930), have a ground rod immediately under the electrical meter, and other services such as cable connections are also connection directly to this ground rod. Further, many telephone poles have have wires running down under the earth (as they are bare wires I assume they are earthing wires?), so the typical house has several ground connections between them and the substation, and this isn't factoring in all of the other houses and their ground rods that are connected to said power lines that are en route. From what I understand it is like this across the US. I would guess that in your case the goal is to keep the electrical lines from dealing with lightening strikes directly, while in my case the system is designed to dissipate said strike as much as possible over a wide area?. I wonder, do you have more buried electrical cables than we have? I don't see the setup you have being as feasible with overhead wires unless they took other precautions as well... All this being said, I am not an electrician, so there may be more to all of this than I realize... The DB [/QUOTE]

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