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Break in the Earthing (Ground) Conductor

Lecture



A break in the grounding wire, unlike a break in a phase wire, does not cause any disruption in the operation of the appliance and can be detected either during a preventive inspection or repair, or, in the event of insulation damage and a short to the casing, after one of the workers has received an electric shock. If the broken grounding wire touches one of the live wires, a serious hazard arises, since in this case phase voltage appears on the casing of the appliance. The appearance of phase voltage may result from an error made when installing the plug or the mains socket, if the grounding wire is connected to a live contact. Such errors are possible when plugs and sockets are repaired by unqualified workers.

The appearance of phase voltage on the casing of an appliance or apparatus is also caused by a break in the grounding wire inside the mains cord and its contact with live wires. In this case the danger of electric shock is even greater, since the product continues to function normally and the fault is not immediately detected.

See also

  • Phase break
  • phase short circuit
  • neutral wire break

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Electrical Engineering
Electrical and Radio Measurements
Transients in electrical circuits
Introduction
Electrical circuit topology
Electrical circuit and its elements
Receivers of electrical energy:
Laws describing the operation of an electrical circuit
Power sources of electrical circuits
Current source
DC source operation modes
Power balance
Series and parallel connection of resistances
Mixed resistance mix
Kirchhoff's Method: Kirchhoff's First and Second Laws - Online Calculator
Loop current method
Nodal potentials method
Two node method
Active two-pole method (generator)
Nonlinear dc circuits
Sinusoidal current circuits
Using complex numbers to calculate electrical circuits
Vector diagrams of sinusoidal functions
Complex resistance
AC power
Chains with R, C, L elements
Electrical circuit with capacitive C - element
Electrical circuit with inductive L - element
Analysis of sinusoidal current circuits
Consecutive connection of elements in a sinusoidal current circuit: RLC circuit
Chain rl
RC circuit
Voltage resonance
Cases of other modes of operation of the RLC circuit
Resonance currents. Definition formulas, vector diagram
Power balance in AC circuits
Steady-state modes in non-sinusoidal current circuits
Effective and average non-sinusoidal values
The coefficients characterizing the non-sinusoidal signals
Transients in electrical circuits
The first law of commutation
Second law of commutation
Transients in RL - chain
Transient use
RC transients
Application of the transition process in the RC circuit
Transients in AC circuits.
Steady-state modes in three-phase circuits. General characteristics of three-phase circuits.
The connection of the windings of the source and phases of the receiver with a star with a neutral wire
Construction of vector diagrams
Three wire circuit
Triangle receiver phase connection
Determination of phase and linear currents
Three-phase power
Three-phase power at balanced load
Three-phase power at unbalanced load
Measurements in three-phase alternating circuits
Emergency modes
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Basic laws of magnetic circuits
Technical characteristics of ferromagnets
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Electric inductor: principle of operation, purpose, application
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Idle mode of the transformer (x.x.)
Load mode transformer
mode - Transformer short circuit
The main parameters of the transformer
Transformer external characteristic
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Law of conservation of electricity
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Chains with distributed parameters
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Solution of equations in hyperbolic functions
Air and cable lines
No distortion lines
Lossless line
Standing waves
Matched load line
Calculation of linear DC electric circuits
Equivalent Transformation Method
Task contour current method
Task nodal potentials method
An example of the calculation of chains with features.
Example method of two nodes
Equivalent Generator Method (Dipole)
An example of the calculation of circuits with nonlinear elements
Translation of complex numbers
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Example voltage resonance
Example Resonance currents
Mixing Charting
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The receiver is connected to a four-wire network by a star.
Neutral wire break
Calculation of transients in electrical circuits by the classical method
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Abbreviations used in electronics.
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