Advanced Driven Ground Rods

Advanced driven rods are modular in nature and are designed in fi ve foot lengths.

Advanced driven ground rods. Erico copper bonded ground rods are the highest quality ground rods available today. The length of a ground rod plays a much bigger role in its final ground resistance measurement and it goes without saying that it takes longer to drive a longer ground rod. Safely drive 3 8 1 2 5 8 and 3 4 rods from the ground in under a minute with itoolcoʼs ground rod dawg. Typically a shovel is used to dig down into the ground 18 inches before the advanced driven rod is installed.

We use a unique manufacturing process which includes drawing the steel rod to size before the copper bonding process begins. This is by far the most common grounding device used in the field today. Once the rod is driven down far enough the tool will hammer from top to finish driving rod under grade. The driven rod has been in use since the earliest days of electricity with a history dating as far back as benjamin franklin.

24 3 1 driven rod 24 3 24 3 2 advanced driven rods 24 5 24 3 3 grounding plates 24 6 24 3 4 ufer ground or concrete encased electrodes 24 6 24 3 5 water pipes 24 8 24 3 6 electrolytic electrode 24 9 24 4 system design and planning 24 9 24 4 1 data collection 24 10 24 4 2 data analysis 24 10. These products offer cost effective and efficient earth rod grounding system. We use a unique manufacturing process which includes drawing the steel rod to size before the copper bonding process begins. The standard driven rod or copper clad rod consists of an 8 to 10 foot length of steel with a 5 to 10 mil coating of copper.

This results in a straighter harder steel core making installation easier. A ground rod sleeve may prevent the top of a ground rod from mushrooming. It s probably no coincidence that most rods driven in canada with its harder soil are 3 4 inch in diameter as opposed to 5 8 inch rods which dominate in the united states. With the incorporation of innovative designs and implementation of cutting edge technology we offer a broad range of copper bonded earth electrodes.

I used it to drive 2 copper ground rods each 8 ft long into the ground for my home renovation project and when paired with my bosch bulldog hammer drill it made short work of this otherwise unwieldy task of driving the rods in manually with hammer. This ground rod driver eliminates the need for a ladder. Nvent erico uses a continuous electro plating. They have per manent and irreversible connections that enable an operator to install them safely while standing on the ground.

Even with my hard clay soil it took about 4 minutes to drive each rod. This results in a straighter harder steel core making installation easier. Copper clad driven ground rods are often insufficient due to high ground resistively or a limited installation area. However if the end of the ground rod is mushrooming you might need to use an advanced driven rod that is installed with a standard drill hammer.