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Chapter 3 - Grounding The Dish

Grouding the satellite system will prevent damage to the sensitive radio electronics from static electricity by shunting the electricity to a grounding source. Systems that are not grounded will in some cases experience sporatic operation. It's important to ground a system since any system that is not grounding will not be covered by the Ground Control warranty.

Grounding a satellite system requires the following:

	A thick gage grounding wire can be found in any electrical department of a home improvement store.
	Make sure that you ground the transmitter block...
	... the dish arm ...
	... the non-pen mount ...
	... and run the ground to a cold water pipe, building steel frame, or any other standard grounding site.
	Your electrical department will have a selection of grounding attachments, and you should carry a variety of these as well.
	You should also have a small variety of attachment hardware so that grounding takes only a few minutes, as opposed to an hour long ordeal of going to the store.
	You will also need to ground the coax cables inside the building, using a coax grounding block like the one pictured here. This is normally done near the Point of Entry into the building. The red arrow shows you where you'll attach your grounding cable. While the coax cable needs to be grounded, IT MUST NOT be a part of the grounding circuit of the rest of the dish. REMEMBER: you can ground the transmitter, the dish arms, and the non-pen together, but NOT THE COAX.
	Grounding blocks like these are normally available in the TV and home stereo / electronics section of your local hardware store.

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