Many people think that there is not much difference between a
copper-clad steel grounding rod and a grounding pole. Even many professionals do not take it seriously and often confuse them when using them. In fact, there is a big mistake. There is a big difference in the use range of ground rods and ground electrodes.
Grounding rods are often used in lightning protection grounding construction of major ground buildings, while grounding poles are groups of conductive components placed in the earth or seawater. It can provide a low-resistance path between one point of the DC circuit and the earth, and has the ability to continuously pass current within a certain period of time.
That is, a conductor or a combination of several conductors buried in the earth to connect to the earth is called a ground electrode. The grounding electrode is an electrode that is fully in contact with the earth and connected to the earth. In lightning protection projects, the grounding electrode is made of multiple 2m and 1.5m long copper-clad steel grounding rods, nailed to the bottom of the trench 800mm deep, and then copper Lead out from stranded steel wire or bare copper wire.
The copper-clad steel grounding rod is an individual, and a conductor formed by connecting multiple copper-clad steel grounding rods becomes a copper-clad steel grounding electrode. To put it simply, a single copper-clad steel grounding rod is smaller and a copper-clad steel grounding pole is larger. Copper-clad steel grounding pole is a general term for copper-clad steel grounding materials.
Application fields: Copper-clad steel grounding rods and grounding electrodes are similar. Copper-clad steel grounding rods and copper-clad steel grounding electrodes are used in copper-clad steel grounding materials. They are suitable for general environments and areas with moisture, saline-alkali, acidic soil and chemically corrosive media. Special environment, widely used in power plants, substations, transmission line towers, communication base stations, airports, railways, subway stations, various high-rise buildings, microwave relay stations, network rooms, petrochemical plants, oil storage depots and other places for lightning protection grounding and anti-static Grounding, protective grounding, working grounding, etc.