Adding ground rods to 100A sub-panel
The 100 amp sub-panel in my workshop doesn't have separate ground rods; it's feed with 4-conductor wire from the main panel in the house about 75 ft away, buried in 2" conduit (don't remember the exact size off hand but it's aluminum and I think it's 2-2-2-4, seems like it was labeled as "mobile home feeder" at the Borg when I bought it). The neutral bus is isolated from ground in the sub-panel. So hopefully that's all correct...
From reading the other "100 amp subpanel" thread, it seems evident that I should probably have ground rods for my sub-panel. So I'm planning to add a pair of 8 ft rods, looks like the rules say they need to be at least 6 ft apart. Do they need to be any certain distance away from the building?
How should I approach getting the ground wire to the outside of the workshop? My shop is a pole barn with a (thick) concrete floor and finished / insulated walls; the feeder for the panel comes up through the floor via 2" conduit. So I guess I'll need to drill a hole down through the floor and excavate under the floor from outside to get the ground wire out.
Does the wire need to be in conduit through the concrete floor? All the way to the first ground rod, or only far enough to get it outside of the building? How far below the surface do the ground rods need to be and what type of wire should I use to bond the rods together and for the main ground conductor back to the panel? I thought I saw a reference to using #6 THHN stranded wire from the panel to the ground rod and #6 solid bare copper between the rods. Is that correct?