This article is the third in a 12-part series on the differences between grounding and bonding. To create a grounding electrode system, you bond the various electrodes that are present. By “electrodes ...

One common NEC violation is an installation where grounding electrodes aren’t bonded together. All grounding electrodes present at a building must be bonded together to form the grounding electrode ...

The short version of how they work is by sending electricity through the plug, so an arc breaches the gap between the center electrode and the ground electrode. There’s more to it than that ...

Ufer; the method bears his name. Ufer grounding consists of attaching the grounding electrode conductor, in this case from the guy wires themselves, to the steel rebar encased within a concrete ...

Some racing plugs offered by Champion and other leading manufacturers come with their side (ground) electrode tips cut back (not fully extending over the center or positive electrode). Also known ...

Before defining spark plug gap, take a good look at this image, which details a plug’s overall makeup, from the terminal nut (at the top) all the way down to its ground electrode (the curved ...

New research investigates an APPJ that extends from the ground electrode of a circuit. Because they are portable and easy to operate at ambient temperatures, cold atmospheric pressure plasma jets ...

Regardless of the type of grounding electrode, the resistance between the electrode and the earth should not be more than 5 ohms. If multiple ground rods are used to achieve this, they should be ...

The National Electrical Manufacturers Association has published ANSI/NEMA GR 1-2007 Grounding Rod Electrodes and Grounding Rod Electrode Couplings. The National Electrical Manufacturers Association ...

What we should have tried next would have been a set of j-gap, or side-gapped plugs, where the ground strap is cut back from over the end of center electrode. These plugs don’t last as long as ...