| Electrical Bonding |
Article Index for Electrical |
Website Links For Electrical |
Information AboutElectrical Bonding |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT ELECTRICAL BONDING | |
| electricity distribution | |
|
Here is the situation which the authorities wish to avoid. If a person was to touch the metal (earthed casing) of an electrical device during the above fault condition and be in contact with a metal object connected to a true earth then they would get an Electric Shock . Because all metal objects (such as Water Pipe s) are connected together, all the metal objects in the building will be at the same potential, hence it will not be possible to get a shock by touching two 'earthed' objects at once. Bonding takes on an important and particular technical significance when it comes to swimming pools and fountains. For these pools and fountains, any conductor, (for example this means bits of metal etc., not the wire conductor wire to a pump,) over a certain size must be bonded to assure that all conductors are equipotential and do not provide a hazardous conductive path. Buried in the ground, and sometimes even having a small leak, a pool can be a better ground than the electric panel ground. With all the conducting elements bonded, it is less likely that electric current will find a path through a swimmer. |
|
|