Grounding system
AssigneeCambria County Association for the Blind and Handicapped
InventorsAllen Garrett Smith, Gregory Stephen Platt, Timothy Joseph Wedding
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Abstract
A grounding system for a solar power generation facility includes a number of conductive mounting assemblies and a tension member in the form of a cable. A cable coupling of each of the conductive mounting assemblies is structured to engage and clamp the cable. The cable and each of the cable couplings has a conductivity level that is greater than a conductivity level of steel or galvanized steel, and the cable alone and respective combinations of the cable and each one of the cable couplings are each structured to provide at least a portion of a respective grounded current path of the grounding system that will be coupled to current wires and cable hangers that are supported by the cable.
Claims30
A grounding system for a solar power generation facility that includes a plurality of solar panels and a plurality of conductive piles, the grounding system comprising:
- a number of conductive mounting assemblies, each of the conductive mounting assemblies including a mounting body and a cable coupling and being structured to be coupled to a respective one of the conductive piles;
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- a tension member in the form of a cable having a plurality of strands,
- wherein the cable coupling of each of the number of conductive mounting assemblies is structured to engage and clamp the cable, wherein the cable is structured to support along a length thereof a plurality of cable hangers and a number of current wires connected to one or more of the solar panels, wherein the cable and each of the cable couplings has a conductivity level that is greater than a conductivity level of steel or galvanized steel, and wherein the cable alone and respective combinations of the cable and each one of the cable couplings are each structured to provide at least a portion of a respective grounded current path of the grounding system that will be coupled to the current wires and the cable hangers when supported by the cable.
A grounding system for a solar power generation facility that includes a plurality of solar panels and a plurality of conductive piles, the grounding system comprising:
- a number of conductive mounting assemblies, each of the conductive mounting assemblies including a mounting body and a cable coupling and being coupled to a respective one of the conductive piles;
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- a tension member in the form of a cable having a plurality of strands,
- wherein the cable coupling of each of the number of conductive mounting assemblies is engaged with and clamped to the cable, wherein the cable supports a plurality of cable hangers and a number of current wires connected to one or more of the solar panels, and wherein the cable and each of the cable couplings has a conductivity level that is greater than a conductivity level of steel or galvanized steel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.