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It is a safety measure for devices that have a metal case where a failure in the device could cause the case to be connected to the hot side of the circuit. By grounding the case the breaker will trip instead of you getting a shock.
The grounded conductor (Neutral) can be white or gray. The grounding conductor can be solid green, Green with a yellow tracer or bare copper.
No, the bare copper grounding conductor can not be in a conduit with other conductors. It can be in conduit by itself to provide mechanical protection for the wire.
A ground is not expected to carry any current. It's only there in case of a fault condition. If you have a current reading through a ground wire there is a fault that needs to be corrected. Many times a lazy electrician who couldn't find a broken neutral connected a receptacle or light fixture to ground to make it work. This is not a proper use of the grounding system, and it is dangerous and should be corrected if encountered. The grounding conductor should have at least the same ampacity of the largest phase conductor connected to the circuits it protects. That way it is capable of carrying the full current of the largest conductor in case of a fault.
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It allows for a separate equipment grounding conductor
Grounding?AnswerIf a line conductor is unintentionally connected to earth, then it is an earth fault.
The grounding conductor is green, green with a yellow tracer or bare copper.
In residential 120 VAC, single-phase electrical wiring, there are three main types of electrical wires: 1. Ungrounded conductor (Hot, and sometimes called "Line" or "Phase") 2. Grounded conductor (Neutral), and 3. Grounding conductor (Safety Ground or Protective Earth) The groundED conductor is the power return, intended as a current return path from the load back to the source to complete the "circuit." Its insulation is White, gray or a non-green color with white stripes. The National Electric Code requires it be connected to earth ("groundED ") at the service entrance and usually only there. The groundING conductor is usually the safety ground which serves as an emergency current return path in the event of a circuit fault or overvoltage. Like the groundED conductor, it too is grounded at the service entrance, but is also connected to metal surfaces and parts along the circuit, groundING them. It conducts current only if the current "seeks" to return to the service entrance along a path other than the Neutral (like through your chest, should a Hot wire becomes loose and contact metal in the circuit that you may touch). Since the grounding conductor doesn't normally carry current, its cross-section is sometimes smaller than the groundED conductor's. The grounding conductor's insulation is green (no other conductors can have green insulation) though sometimes it is bare copper. Sometimes the steel metal conduit enclosing the Hot and Neutral acts as the grounding conductor.
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The grounded conductor is usually covered in white or light gray insulation. The grounded conductor is connected to the grounding conductor at one and only one point, usually near the transformer or in the circuit breaker panel.
As the neutral point of an electrical supply system is often connected to earth ground, ground and neutral are closely related. Under certain conditions, a conductor used to connect to a system neutral is also used for grounding (earthing) of equipment and structures. Current carried on a grounding conductor can result in objectionable or dangerous voltages appearing on equipment enclosures, so the installation of grounding conductors and neutral conductors is carefully defined in electrical regulations. Where a neutral conductor is used also to connect equipment enclosures to earth, care must be taken that the neutral conductor never rises to a high voltage with respect to local ground.
Generally a #6 copper conductor will do the job. The key to this grounding is that the ground conductor has to be taken back and connected to the service ground wire for optimal performance.
It is a safety measure for devices that have a metal case where a failure in the device could cause the case to be connected to the hot side of the circuit. By grounding the case the breaker will trip instead of you getting a shock.
Grounded conductor is white 120/240 volt & gray 480 volt. Grounding conductor is green or green with yellow.
The black "hot" conductor goes to the brass coloured screw. The white coloured conductor goes to the silver coloured screw. The bare ground conductor goes to the ground green coloured screw
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