HISTORY: High Resistance Grounding is a means of limiting ground fault current in electrical systems. Unrestrained fault current can cause severe equipment damage, product destruction, and personnel ...

Should I install an ungrounded, solid, or high-resistance grounding system? That is the question asked by many designers and installers. The answer to this question depends on many factors. To make ...

A grounding transformer placed on the bus side (Fig. 2 location 1) of the collector station introduces a problem with the line losing ground reference during fault conditions on a line. This can be ...

Ground fault protection is a cornerstone in ensuring the safety and operational reliability of modern power systems. Ground faults, which occur when an unintended electrical path connects a live ...

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 ...

Unfortunately, not everything in an underground utility system is actually under the ground. What remains visible are metal service boxes situated above ground, on concrete pads, as part of an ...