[nrpardee]

This has been really helpful!
How careful does one need to be about bends in the grounding wire. For my application, I can't see any way to avoid a couple of basically 90 degree bends (rounded, of course!) and one 60 degree bend. I could definitely avoid two bends by putting in a grounding rod but what I read says I would have to bond that to my existing rod, which would require running a #6 copper probably 50'. or more.