The Water Table
Older members recall the days before indoor plumbing when water was pumped from a well located in the ground.
We hear of underground rivers, springs and aqifers.
If we drove our ground rods deep into underground water deposits things might really start to pick up.
When I built this home in 2006, the well contractor had to drill to 390 feet so this isn't an option for me. On the positive side my water is fantastic.
Probably not.
don't be so fast to discount it as a ground. best thing is to try and see if it makes an improvement. that is a lot of metal to dirt contact and in combination with gorund radials might prove a good grounding system.
I had not thought of that because my plumbing is all PVC or PEX. However I assume the well itself is some kind of metal. I could easily run a lead about 100 feet from the antenna to the well. I think I will try that.
Jim Henry is planning to have wet running radio water direct from the faucet.
Drinking RF energy might be the next energy drink.
As a plumber's helper years ago, I helped my brother-in-law do several well repairs.
The pipeing that either goes to the submersible pump in well pump is made of flexible plastic pipe. However, the AC power to the pump is provided by a 3 conductor wire. HOT, NEUTRAL and GROUND. The YELLOW wire is the pump GROUND wire.
Well setups that have the pump inside the home or above ground, are designed with a foot valve and often two sections of flexible plastic pipe that lead deep into the well cavity. In this design, there is no house grounding system into the well cavity its self.
There may be a steel pipe with a cap, that goes a short distance into and below the ground surface, but this pipe is not part of a ground system, it is there to allow access from the ground level above to the interior water well area, which is too small an access for human entry, but allows the maintenance of the well's pumping system.
This steel pipe only goes down to a depth where the below ground shelf rock begins, the drill that drills the well, drills into the rock, which becomes the walls of the well from that point downward until a live water vein is located. That steel pipe often is not at the total depth of the well cavity.
So, the conclusion is based on where your well's water pump is located, above ground, no electrical ground into the well.
Submersible pump has a ground lead running with the HOT and NEUTRAL to the water pump buried deep in the well water level.
Bruce.
Bruce,
Thanks for the info. On the surface there is no pump just a steel pipe and cap, so I assume the pump is somewhere underground. In my basement is just the air pressurizer gadget. The wiring is all underground so I guess I'd have to check to see where the wiring comes into the basement.
Jim
jimhenry2000 If you have a submersible pump, you can tell by looking closely at the well cap its self. You may have to remove the cap to see the wires. If there is a WHITE (Sometimes RED), BLACK and YELLOW spiral wire configuration leading down into the depths of your well, you have an AC powered submersible pump down there buried in the water some several hundred feet below.
Usually for above ground pumps, the pump is located right next to the water storage tank.
Bruce.