I recently came across this article by Dean Austin who is listed as an NFPA Senior Electrical Specialist. BLOG ARTICLE HERE
It made me wonder, if specialists associated with the NFPA use this kind of language, there's no wonder electrical professionals themselves do not have a full understanding on the subject.
In the second paragraph he makes a series of true but separate statements, "The earth itself is not considered an effective ground-fault current path, so sticking the wire in the ground is not enough." that true statement is contradicted by a confusing statement in the next paragraph "Having a strong grounding electrode system stabilizes voltage and helps to clear ground faults." The whole article was just all over the place.
The article itself confuses the distinction and related but separate purposes of the GEC and EGC. (edit, or maybe it's just me) Anyhow, I suppose the purpose of this post is just to vent frustration
It made me wonder, if specialists associated with the NFPA use this kind of language, there's no wonder electrical professionals themselves do not have a full understanding on the subject.
In the second paragraph he makes a series of true but separate statements, "The earth itself is not considered an effective ground-fault current path, so sticking the wire in the ground is not enough." that true statement is contradicted by a confusing statement in the next paragraph "Having a strong grounding electrode system stabilizes voltage and helps to clear ground faults." The whole article was just all over the place.
The article itself confuses the distinction and related but separate purposes of the GEC and EGC. (edit, or maybe it's just me) Anyhow, I suppose the purpose of this post is just to vent frustration
