Reply from: Mark I asked my Minnesota cable company, Comcast, to bring my CATV grounding up to code. They informed me I was 'grandfathered' in and a change wasn't required but they reluctantly came out anyway after I complained.
After they completed the job, I inspected the work. They had run the CATV around the house to the main Service Entrance and had installed the correct CATV grounding connector but the 10 guage wire running from it to the main house ground wire had already snapped off at the CATV grounding connector. At the other end, they had attached the 10 guage to the house's main ground wire with a clamp that was clamped directly on the main ground wire. Unfortunately, the main ground wire had about 4 coats of paint on it which they just clamped on top of without cleaning it off. The Phone line had the same poorly bonded ground wire. Needless to say, I had to sand off the paint, reattach the wire and fix it myself. My call to Comcast was never returned. |