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    Purpose of Equipotential Bonding

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    Equipotential bonding connects exposed metalwork and extraneous metalwork to the system earth to ensure they are at substantially the same potential. This prevents electric shock from potential differences between metal surfaces during fault conditions. Bonding connects all accessible metalwork associated with the electrical installation as well as unrelated metalwork like pipes and ducts. Equipotential bonding is necessary to connect non-electrical metal systems in a building to the electrical earth point to prevent dangerous potential differences and hazardous indirect shock situations from developing between these systems and electrical equipment or the earth in the event of an earth fault.

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    Equipotential bonding connects exposed metalwork and extraneous metalwork to the system earth to ensure they are at substantially the same potential. This prevents electric shock from potential differences between metal surfaces during fault conditions. Bonding connects all accessible metalwork associated with the electrical installation as well as unrelated metalwork like pipes and ducts. Equipotential bonding is necessary to connect non-electrical metal systems in a building to the electrical earth point to prevent dangerous potential differences and hazardous indirect shock situations from developing between these systems and electrical equipment or the earth in the event of an earth fault.

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    Equipotential bonding connects exposed metalwork and extraneous metalwork to the system earth to ensure they are at substantially the same potential. This prevents electric shock from potential differences between metal surfaces during fault conditions. Bonding connects all accessible metalwork associated with the electrical installation as well as unrelated metalwork like pipes and ducts. Equipotential bonding is necessary to connect non-electrical metal systems in a building to the electrical earth point to prevent dangerous potential differences and hazardous indirect shock situations from developing between these systems and electrical equipment or the earth in the event of an earth fault.

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    Equipotential bonding connects exposed metalwork and extraneous metalwork to the system earth to ensure they are at substantially the same potential. This prevents electric shock from potential differences between metal surfaces during fault conditions. Bonding connects all accessible metalwork associated with the electrical installation as well as unrelated metalwork like pipes and ducts. Equipotential bonding is necessary to connect non-electrical metal systems in a building to the electrical earth point to prevent dangerous potential differences and hazardous indirect shock situations from developing between these systems and electrical equipment or the earth in the event of an earth fault.

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    The key takeaways are that equipotential bonding maintains exposed conductive parts at the same potential to prevent electric shock under fault conditions. It bonds accessible metalwork to the system earth for safety.

    The purpose of equipotential bonding is to maintain various exposed conductive parts and extraneous conductive parts at substantially the same potential through bonding to prevent electric shock under fault conditions.

    The two aspects of equipotential bonding are main bonding where services enter the building and supplementary bonding within rooms, particularly kitchens and bathrooms.

    Purpose of Equipotential Bonding

    Purpose of Equipotential bonding


    Purpose and Practice
    Equipotential bonding is essentially an electrical connection maintaining various exposed
    conductive parts and extraneous conductive parts at substantially the same potential.
    An earthed equipotential zone is one within which exposed conductive parts and extraneous
    conductive parts are maintained at substantially the same potential by bonding, such as that,
    under fault conditions, the difference in potential between simultaneously accessible exposed
    and extraneous conductive parts will not cause electric shock.
    Bonding is the practice of connecting all accessible metalwork whether associated with the
    electrical installation (known as exposed metalwork) or not (extraneous metalwork) to the
    system earth.

    Lightning equipotential bonding

    In a building, there are typically a number of services other than electrical supply that employ
    metallic connections in their design. These include water piping, gas piping, HVAC ducting, and
    so on. A building may also contain steel structures in its construction. We have seen earlier in
    this chapter that when an earth fault takes place in an installation, the external conducting
    surfaces of the installation and the earth mass in the vicinity may attain higher potential with
    reference to the source earth.
    There is thus a possibility that a dangerous potential may develop between the conducting
    parts of non-electrical systems including building structures and the external conducting parts
    of electrical installations as well as the surrounding earth.
    This may give rise to undesirable current flow through paths that are not normally designed to
    carry current (such as joints in building structures) and also cause hazardous situations of
    indirect shock.
    It is therefore necessary that all such parts are bonded to the electrical service earth point of
    the building to ensure safety of occupants. This is called equipotential bonding.
    There are two aspects to equipotential bonding: the main bonding where services enter the
    building and supplementary bonding within rooms, particularly kitchens and bathrooms.
    Main bonding should interconnect the incoming gas, water and electricity service where these
    are metallic but can be omitted where the services are run in plastic, as is frequently the case
    nowadays. Internally, bonding should link any items, which are likely to be at earth potential or

    which may become live in the event of a fault and which are sufficiently large that they can
    contact a significant part of the body or can be gripped.
    Small parts, other than those likely to be gripped, are ignored because the instinctive reaction
    to a shock is muscular contraction, which will break the circuit.

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