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In Grounding and Bonding, you'll learn ...
- How proper grounding protects equipment, people and buildings
- The difference between grounding and bonding
- How to properly bond conductors and equipment frames
- Equipment protection elements, including Ground Fault Circuit Interrupters, Transient Voltage Surge Suppressors, wrist straps, the use of chassis grounds, and air terminals
Overview
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Credit: 1 PDH
Length: 20 pages
This course reviews six areas that demonstrate why grounding is important, including protecting people, protecting buildings and other manmade structures, protecting equipment, providing a return path to operate an overcurrent protection device, reducing noise, and providing a polarity reference for DC Systems.
The course reviews the mathematics associated with a lightning rod as well as examples of electrical faults in a typical residential home. The importance of the home’s main bonding jumper and the grounding electrode is reviewed.
The difference between grounding and bonding is discussed, along with the proper methods of bonding. The course examines the differences between integrated and isolated ground planes. The rationale is presented for using the isolated ground plane to protect equipment. Many terms associated with grounding are presented, including frame grounds, floor ground bars, the vertical equalizer, the ground window, and the building’s principal ground point.
The course reviews many elements associated with protecting equipment, including Ground Fault Circuit Interrupters, Transient Voltage Surge Suppressors, wrist straps, the use of chassis grounds, and air terminals. Proper grounding and bonding are essential for providing for the safety of people, the protection of buildings, and the correct operation of equipment.
Specific Knowledge or Skill Obtained
This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:
- The importance of the ground wire to the proper operation of overcurrent protection devices
- The meaning of “girdling”
- The difference between an isolated and integrated ground plane
- The various methods used to protect equipment from faults and EMI
- The mathematics behind a lightning rod system
- The importance of the Vertical Equalizer
- When an isolated ground plane may be appropriate to use
- How a ground system can provide a polarity reference for DC Systems
Certificate of Completion
You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a multiple-choice quiz consisting of 10 questions. PDH credits are not awarded until the course is completed and quiz is passed.
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Preview a portion of this course before purchasing it.
Credit: 1 PDH
Length: 20 pages
