brygx

I just purchased a satellite that will be installed on my balcony. There’s nothing immediately accessible to ground to. Now, I could use the ground wire from an outlet, but how does that work, exactly? Do I just take an extension cord and rip open the wires and string them around the coax wires? Has anyone else done this before? Thanks.

palebluedot

For all the years I have had a dish I have never grounded it.

With that said I would definitley advise you not to gound to an outlet internal to your home because that ground is for the event that the dish gets struck by lightening and I am sure you don't want "1.21 jigawatts" of electricity coming into your house. The best thing to do is (if you can) bury a copper rod in the ground a few feet and ground to that.

brygx

Well, as I said, the satellite is up on a balcony so there's nothing to ground it to =(.. Oh well, lets just hope it doesn't fry my entire home theater =PP.

Taco

How high up are you? You could run some heavy gauge wire down to the ground to a grounding rod. Worst case is to buy a good surge supressor that handles coax.