When the user uses a chemical pump, during the installation process, the power cord, motor and other equipment are usually grounded. What are the benefits of grounding and what protection does it play? The following introduces the basic concepts of grounding:
1. The basic concept of grounding
Grounding is an electrical safety measure taken in order to enable electrical equipment to work normally and protect personal safety. Generally, grounding is achieved by linking a metal wire with a grounding device.
2. Types of grounding equipment
There are two main types of grounding equipment commonly used for grounding, namely, protective grounding (grounding of household electrical equipment or power supply lines).
1. Lightning protection grounding equipment
Lightning protection grounding equipment is generally used on the top of high-rise buildings, mainly to prevent lightning strikes. Commonly used lightning protection grounding equipment includes lightning rods, lightning belts, lightning nets or lightning arresters. The lightning protection grounding equipment generally consists of a lightning receiving device, a grounding wire and a grounding device. These devices cooperate with each other to introduce lightning current into the ground for protection. The lightning receiving device is located on the top of the lightning protection grounding device and is a component that directly receives lightning strikes. Its function is to use its prominent position higher than the protected object to lead the lightning to itself, and use the ground wire or ground rod to introduce the lightning into the ground.
2. Protect grounding equipment
Protective grounding is a necessary grounding measure in the family. The common grounding equipment in the home is the grounding wire and the grounding rod. The grounding wire is the metal wire, which is mainly used to transmit leakage current and static charge. Ground rods, also known as grounding electrodes or grounding grids, are mainly used to introduce the leakage current, static charge or lightning current sent by the grounding wire into the ground.
When houses and buildings need to be grounded, generally, after connecting the power ground wires in the house together, insert a ground rod with good conductivity into the ground to a certain depth. The depth should be determined according to the amount of current in the house as a whole, and the ground wire and ground rod should be connected together.
Most household appliances that people use daily need to be grounded. In household appliances, if grounding protection is not used, when a part of the insulation is damaged or a phase line touches the metal shell, the metal shell of the household appliance will be charged. If the human body touches the metal shell of the appliance at this time, there will be a risk of electric shock. The field must be grounded, and the electrical outlet must be connected to the ground.
Three, the functional characteristics of grounding equipment
The main function of grounding equipment is to provide grounding protection for power supply lines, electrical equipment, etc. of homes or buildings, which can introduce leakage current, static charge and lightning current generated on electrical equipment into the ground to avoid personal electric shock, fire, explosion and other accidents.
In addition, there is another kind of grounding called protective zero connection, which refers to a protective measure that connects the shell or frame of electrical equipment to the zero line of the directly grounded point. Among them, the directly grounded point is also called the neutral point. Take the protective zero connection of three-phase electricity as an example, connect the metal shell of electrical equipment and the metal frame connected with the shell to the line of the neutral grounded power system to protect personal safety.








