09/02/2018
What is Earthing System?
The connection between electrical appliances and devices with the earth plate or electrode through a thick wire of low resistance to provide safety is known as Earthing or Grounding.
Earthing System or Grounding System in Electrical network is for safety purpose. The Main objective of earthing system is to provide an alternative path for dangerous current to flow so that the problem of electric shock and damaging of equipment’s can be cured.
Metallic part of an equipment are grounded and if the equipment’s insulation fails than there will be no dangerous voltages present in equipment box.
The circuit gets sorted and fuse will blow immediately, in case the live wire touches the earthed case.
earthing-768x576Particularly, it can affect the magnitude and distribution of current in short circuits through the system and the effects of the system are on equipment and people who will near to the circuit.
Why you should have an Earthing System?
Earthing system makes your building electrically shock free and gives you a safe place.
Below are some of the Reasons for Earthing
1. Safety for Human Life, Electrical Devices and Building
It saves the human life from danger of electrical shock which can cause death, by blowing a fuse.
Protects your electric equipment’s or devices.
It provides a safe path for lighting and short circuit currents.
2. Voltage Stabilization
You know that electricity has many sources. As Every transformer considered to be a separate source. And if there is not a point which will act as common point, then it becomes more difficult to make a calculation between these sources.
In the Electrical distribution systems, Earth is the omnipresent conductive surface, which makes it a universal standard for all electric system.
3. Over Voltage Protection
Earthing System provides an alternative path in the electrical system to minimize the dangerous effect in the electrical system which happens at the time of lighting and unintentional contact with high voltage lines.
