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What other types of grounding electrodes are there apart from ground rods?

E&S Grounding Solutions Oct 25, 2020 0 577

There are a number of different grounding electrodes in use today. They are the standard driven rod, advanced driven rod, grounding plate, concrete encased electrode (sometimes called a Ufer ground), water pipes and the electrolytic electrode.

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Will applying salt around earthing electrodes help to resolve neutral to ground line voltage issues?

E&S Grounding Solutions Nov 14, 2019 0 196

Generally speaking, reducing the resistance of the earthing electrodes (salting them) will not help you with a neutral to ground line voltage issue.

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What is Carbonaceous (Coke) Breeze and why was it banned?

E&S Grounding Solutions Sep 30, 2019 0 441

In the grounding and earthing industry, we are generally interested in Refined Honeycomb Coke. This is because refined honeycomb coke has been cooked at high temperatures leaving it with a very low level of sulphur, a low coefficient of thermal expansion, and very low in electrical conductivity

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What is the mathematical formula for calculating the resistance-to-ground of parallel electrodes?

E&S Grounding Solutions Nov 11, 2017 0 304

We highly recommend using a computer program such as CDEGS to facilitate the calculation process.

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Applying salt around earthing electrodes to help resolve neutral to ground line voltage issues

E&S Grounding Solutions Aug 9, 2017 0 330

No doubt, you will find a subpanel or backup generator somewhere that has a connection from neutral to earth that should not be there and is allowing normal operating neutral currents to travel back on the protective earthing system.

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Why bond the neutral and the ground wire in the main panel?

E&S Grounding Solutions Aug 3, 2017 0 446

Over Current Protection Devices (OCPD) such as circuit breakers and fuses actually require a short and intense INCREASE in electrical current (a short) in order to detect the fault and cut the circuit off.