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Earthing System

The document discusses earthing and grounding systems for caravans. It explains that earthing is related to human safety while grounding ensures safe current return paths. There are two sections for caravan earthing: 1) connecting the caravan to an earth electrode pit for redundancy, and 2) connecting the earth electrode pit to ground to reduce resistance below 1 ohm using various electrode types and ensuring proper depth and conductor length. Multiple connections to earth pits provide redundancy but additional pits are only needed if the existing pit resistance is too high.

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Earthing System

The document discusses earthing and grounding systems for caravans. It explains that earthing is related to human safety while grounding ensures safe current return paths. There are two sections for caravan earthing: 1) connecting the caravan to an earth electrode pit for redundancy, and 2) connecting the earth electrode pit to ground to reduce resistance below 1 ohm using various electrode types and ensuring proper depth and conductor length. Multiple connections to earth pits provide redundancy but additional pits are only needed if the existing pit resistance is too high.

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Earthing System

 Earthing and grounding are two different things. Grounding is more oriented to equipment
safety & electrical system requirements for providing the return path for the flow of current
in case of unbalanced conditions & faults.
 Earthing is more related to the protection and safety of humans.
 There are two sections for Earthing of Caravans
1. Connection of caravan to the Earth Electrode (Earth Pit)
 Caravans are metallic structures so their resistance is low but multiple
connections to the same earth pit at different locations serve as redundant
paths or alternative paths for the flow of current in case of failures of a
single path. Normally TT system is used if we can see Each equipment to be
protected is independently earthed in the figure to ground (Like All
appliances etc)

2. Connection of Earth Electrode (Earth Pit) with Ground.


 This is more specific to the resistance of the pit (that we used to measure to
reduce below 1 ohm)
 Earth Electrode is used in various types (Rods, Mesh or Grid of electrodes,
Plates, Horizontal Rods buried inside the earth, etc).
 Section 6.1 Earthing Practice File shows the depth, and length of the
horizontal conductor, soil resistivity, Earth Grid, and Radius.
 Now Increasing the radius (Pi R*R) means decreasing the resistance of the
pit. Radius can be increased by increasing the rod area, or by adding two or
more electrodes. So multiple earthing. But these must be at a specific place.
So, if our pit resistance is within the acceptable ranges while checking by
isolating all circuits to check the rode resistance only then multiple pits are
not required.

 So Multiple connections to pits are to make a redundant system which is necessary in case of
failure of one. However, the addition of more pits depends upon the resistance of the
existing pit.
 Supporting documents
o Section 9.5.4, 9.5.6 Parallel connection of aligned rods BS-7430-2011 shows the
parallel connection of aligned rods.
o Earthing Practice Highlighted Part & Section 6.1.
o 9.1 Section BS-7430-2011
o [Link] Section BS-7430-2011

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