How Effective is a Grounding Rod

1. How Effective is a Grounding Rod How Effective is a Grounding Rod

2. A fundamental component of safety and protection for your business is proper grounding. For this reason, one or more grounding rods are required by the National Electrical Code (NEC) and local building codes. Grounding rods are simple and inexpensive but crucial to protecting your facilities and electric equipment, and therefore must not be neglected.

3. What is Earthing? • Earthing is a process or method which transmits instant electrical discharge directly to the ground through electrical cables and low resistance wires. • • • • Earthing helps protect devices and power system from malfunctioning and electrical damage. The major purpose of earthing is to reduce the load in an electrical system during overload. The function of earthing in an electrical installation is to dissipate currents of any nature that may arise in the ground. In the case of the lightning protection system, it must dissipate the current of atmospheric discharges, protecting people, electrical and electronic equipment from dangerous potential differences it is essential to know that, earthing, though not a visible element, is a fundamental and indispensable part of an electrical system and lightning protection system.

4. Effective grounding rods eliminate problems of their conventional counterparts: • By providing uniform non- corrosive, low soil resistivity material around the electrode • By providing highly corrosion-resistant Earthing electrodes • By eliminating the corrosion- causing elements in the salt

5. Importance of grounding rod • Protection against electrical overload • Helps direct electricity • Stabilizes voltage levels • Provides path for conduction to earth • Prevents damage injury and death

6. Details of the grounding rod and the entire grounding system • For each earth grounding pit a connection is made between Earthing Electrodes that have been placed inside the soil and the Earthing conductor that connects to the electrical installation. • The construction procedure of an earth pit may vary from country to country according to the standards followed in that country. • The rating of Galvanized Iron (GI) plate, size of pit, materials used to fill the pit etc. will vary depending on various factors of earthing

7. LEC’s Grounding Rod technology is called Chem Rod. Chem Rod is an efficient grounding system that the reduces the risk of electrical arcing and fires. It improves reliability for many applications, including: • Lightning protection system • Prevention of accidents caused by static charge and stray currents • Protection of central communications, electronics and AC power systems • Meeting grounding safety requirements for electrical substations • Ground fault neutralization • Safe grounding for critical instrumentation and process control equipment Consult our technical team for information regarding design and installation of LEC’s patented grounding rod solutions.

8. Consult our technical team for information regarding design and installation of LEC’s patented grounding rod solutions. Phone: 303-447-2828 Email: info@lecglobal.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/lightningprotec Website: https://www.lightningprotection.com/