Parking Lot Light Pole Grounding

He said an equipment grounding conductor run with the branch circuit conductors is not necessary because of the.

Parking lot light pole grounding. I worked for a contractor in michigan that did a lot light poles and we put a ground rod in each one now in california i used to do a lot of school and have never installed a ground rod at a light pole. New underground power trenching across a parking lot to a new lighting pole installation. Does the nec require a connection of a parking lot lighting pole to a ground rod. The electrical designer has specified a ground rod be driven at each pole.

With the use of 4 inch steel square light poles you can easily find the right lighting for your commercial or industrial parking lot. Cut and patch blacktop surface. No but metal poles used for the support of luminaires are required to be connected to an equipment grounding conductor of a type recognized in 250 118 410 30 b 5. Grounding parking lot lighting poles.

Mike i had an engineer tell me that there was a code change in the 1999 nec requiring metal poles for parking lot lighting with hid fixtures to be grounded to the earth he said that a ground rod must be driven at each pole. If this is true i can t find it please help me out because i have a job to set 17 in the next few days. Trenching through a parking lot for new underground power cables. An electrical contractor has a job to install 20 metal lighting poles on a car parking lot at a shopping center.

Distribution point for new underground power supply conduits and cables to various sections of a parking lot. Grounding a parking lot light i keep hearing that you shouldn t use a ground rod at a standard metal parking lot light and that you should use an equipment grounding conductor run with the circuits.