Grounded Dish?

Look for a ground wire from the dish to your house's electrical panel or a ground rod. Also, look for a grounding block like this ....
http://www.radioshack.com/product/i...round+block&kw=ground+block&parentPage=search

where your cables enter the house. This ground block should also have a ground wire running from it to your house's electrical panel or a ground rod.

litzdog911 said:

Look for a ground wire from the dish to your house's electrical panel or a ground rod. Also, look for a grounding block like this ....
http://www.radioshack.com/product/i...round+block&kw=ground+block&parentPage=search

where your cables enter the house. This ground block should also have a ground wire running from it to your house's electrical panel or a ground rod.

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would positioning of the dish have anything to do with the grounding too?

Because our dish isn't one of those typical side of the house ones, we have it sitting on an old stump in our backyard, 20 feet from our house.

Would the grounding still be the same?

P.s., sorry, I know nothing about this

Jomanscool2 said:

would positioning of the dish have anything to do with the grounding too?

Because our dish isn't one of those typical side of the house ones, we have it sitting on an old stump in our backyard, 20 feet from our house.

Would the grounding still be the same?

P.s., sorry, I know nothing about this

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In that case, you should probably ground the dish with a ground rod mounted near the stump and use a grounding block where the cables enter the house (connected to the house grounding system).

bobnielsen said:

In that case, you should probably ground the dish with a ground rod mounted near the stump and use a grounding block where the cables enter the house (connected to the house grounding system).

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If it's on a stump, or for that matter on a pole in the yard, would a ground be needed for the dish itself? Wouldn't the stump or pole perform that function?

Wolffpack said:

If it's on a stump, or for that matter on a pole in the yard, would a ground be needed for the dish itself? Wouldn't the stump or pole perform that function?

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Thats what I was wondering. It is bolted into the stump. I can still see the need for the cable groundings, but grounding for the dish itself?

What "Approved professional installation company" came to Your house?

A stump?

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one of the main purpose's of
The dish gr, as you guys are calling it, is to remove static build up from the reflector/antenna to REDUCE "the draw" of an electrical strike.

Lol, they just placed the dish where our current dish was.

We previously used a hired satelite installer and we had tried everything else in our land. The options were, stump besides pool, or pole in the ground. We chose the stump, works fine!


P.s., tomorow I can take a picture of the installation for all those wishing to see it. If I have time, I will check for the grounding. It will prolly not be for a few weeks, because that means going in the crawl space, and when I do I'm going to be routing the CAT5E for when they turn on ethernet.

P.p.s., anyone know if the ol' USB--> ethernet works on the HR20 like it did with TiVo?

litzdog911 said:

Look for a ground wire from the dish to your house's electrical panel or a ground rod.
This ground block should also have a ground wire running from it to your house's electrical panel or a ground rod.

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Funny enough, I just installed the mast assembly for my new AT9 yesterday and have been concerned about the whole grounding aspect quite a bit - I have a quad grounding block (grounded) mounted near the dish and that is bonded to the dish "base" which is where the dish instructions say to put the grounding screw. The not so funny part is that the entire dish assembly is powder coated. So the base is effectively grounded but the mast, dish & lnb's are not!!?? Do the coax connections (since the coax is grounded) in the lnb's provide any protection? Has anyone else thought about this?

Wood is a poor conductor and not acceptable as a grounding vehicle.

The normal ground rod is a 5/8" copper plated rod that is eight feet long and driven into the ground within several inches.

So you are telling me I need to drive an 8 foot long rod into the ground?

Should I get DirectTV to do this, because I'm pretty sure there isn't an 8 foot long rod in the ground... And they should be doing this, correct?

Jomanscool2 said:

So you are telling me I need to drive an 8 foot long rod into the ground?

Should I get DirectTV to do this, because I'm pretty sure there isn't an 8 foot long rod in the ground... And they should be doing this, correct?

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Yes, your DirecTV installer should have properly grounded the dish & cables.

What type of tree was that? Something like a cedar will last a long time. Many other varieties will only hold the screws for a relativley short time.

From the photos, I'd guess the probability of a lightning strike was nill to none. Pretty low.

Yeah, thats what I was thinking, if unneeded, why bother to get it grounded? I wouldn't think it would be stuck. Much more likely for our OTA on the roof to be stuck... now to find out if THAT is grounded...

Jomanscool2 said:

Yeah, thats what I was thinking, if unneeded, why bother to get it grounded? I wouldn't think it would be stuck. Much more likely for our OTA on the roof to be stuck... now to find out if THAT is grounded...

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There ya go, look to the sky!!!

:uglyhamme

Grounding also helps reduce ground loops. Ungrounded Satellite antennas often introduce hum into the home theater system. If it isn't broken, I guess it will be fine.