Electrical Grounding: Bringing Grounding Back to Earth - Softcover

O'Riley, Ronald P.

 
9780766804869: Electrical Grounding: Bringing Grounding Back to Earth

Synopsis

Electrical Grounding is a highly illustrated, systematic approach for understanding grounding principles and their application to the 1999 NEC. It takes a complicated subject and explains it in a clear, understandable fashion. It makes learning easy by illustrating a rule, explaining it, discussing the reasoning behind it, and finally, applying it to an actual installation.

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Review

Preface. List of NFPA Materials. Introduction. Grounding. Electrical Theory Applicable to Grounding. Grounding for Safety. Faults. Grounding Electrode System. Grounding Electrode Conductor. Circuit and System Grounding. Grounded Conductor. Main Bonding Jumper.Equipment Grounding Conductor. Equipment and Enclosure Bonding. Equipment and Enclosure Grounding. Grounded Circuit Conductor For Grounding Equipment. Ground-Fault Protective Equipment. System And Circuit Grounding 1 kV and Over. Separately Derived Systems. Two Or More Buildings Supplied By One Service. Calculating Fault Currents. Appendix. Index.

About the Author

After serving for fours years as an electrician's mate in the US Navy during World War II, and then serving a four-year electrical apprenticeship, Ronald P. O'Reily rose through the ranks on the job to become an electrical superintendent. In the process he has accumulated over forty years of experience in the electrical industry. During the past thirty-five years he has been an instructor of electrical theory and Code classes for electrical apprentices and journeyman training, serving for many od those years as the training director of the Dallas JATC. He is a retired member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and an active associate member of the IAEI, where he has served for several years as an officer of the Texas Chapter.

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