Few topics in the industry elicit as much controversy as grounding. Poor grounding practices cause ongoing equipment problems in a facility, whereas proper deployment ensures reliable and productive ...

The grounding and bonding requirements of the NEC might just be the least understood and most incorrectly interpreted section of the Code. In fact, some of the same questions pop up time and time ...

Per the IEEE (The Green Book), “Standard 142-2007 – Recommended Practice for Grounding Industrial and Commercial Power Systems,” the term ground is defined as “a conducting connection, whether ...

The author is national program manager for the Copper Development Association. Lightning strikes and consequent power surges can seriously disrupt the operations of a radio station. Considering the ...

Tom LaBarge is CEO of GLxT Holdings and its manufacturing subsidiary GroundLinx Technologies. The company makes a system called Gradiance that it promotes as providing a new approach to electrical ...

Recently we got our hands on a Hyper Ground electrical grounding system from Sun Overseas Trading. The system, composed of heavy-gauge, 99.99 percent pure copper wires provides a low resistance ground ...

A pretty typical diagram for the grounding system for a house is shown here, along with a few of the current carrying conductors commonly called live and neutral. On the far left is the transformer ...

A corrupt database file is to blame for the computer system outage at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) that temporarily grounded all domestic flights across the US -- but it's still uncertain ...