Transcription of GROUNDING AND BONDING - prospex.us
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1 Consulting, Resource, Education, Training, and Support Services for Professional Home Inspectors A candle loses no light when it lights another candle. Electrical System BONDING and GROUNDING GROUNDING BONDING GROUNDED/NEUTRAL CONDUCTOR EQUIPMENT GROUNDING CONDUCTOR - UNGROUNDED CONDUCTOR GROUNDING ELECTRODE - GROUNDING ELECTRODE CONDUCTOR - FEEDER MAIN BONDING JUMPER - BONDING JUMPER - BONDING CONDUCTOR _____ While these are all electrical system terms and they all relate to each other, they are nonetheless confusing to many home inspectors, in part, because many of these terms share one of two root words, bond and ground. This article will define each of the terms above and, in the course of doing so, will attempt to explain how they interrelate in a typical residential electrical system. GROUNDING GROUNDING means connected to the earth and refers to the process of joining all non-current-carrying conductors in the electrical system and making a low-resistance connection between them and the earth or some conducting body that serves in place of the earth.
5 GROUNDING ELECTRODE CONDUCTOR A grounding electrode conductor (GEC) connects equipment or the grounded circuit of a wiring system to a grounding electrode.
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