Any need to ground camera mounted under eave?

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n3wb
Jul 15, 2024
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Los Angeles, CA
The climate in my area is it hardly rains (S. California) and the cam will be mounted under and eave. It wont get wet nor can I imagine lightening hitting it (albeit the casing is metal). Going by the book, seems I should ground it but, practically, is it necessary?
 
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I presume you have more attractions for lightning strikes, by other prominent metals around your property. So a no no to "earth bond" your CCTV cameras metal housing to avoid the very very unlikely.
 
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I live in Florida. We're Gods test bed for lightning. I dont.

Now if I had a lot of long buried runs hundreds of feet on a large property I'd have to ask someone smarter than me about electrical grounding as I do have a friend who has lost a few due to lightning hits on a 10 acre "farm"
 
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bigredfish said:
Now if I had a lot of long buried runs hundreds of feet on a large property I'd have to ask someone smarter than me about electrical grounding as I do have a friend who has lost a few due to lightning hits on a 10 acre "farm"
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Which triggers me into "transparent layer 2 wireless bridge install mode" instead of the long outdoor run of metallic cable screaming "please-hit-me-hard-God". :cool:
 
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