Electrical Safety of Low-Voltage Systems offers you a comprehensive safety regimen, based on the fundamental characteristics of low-voltage electrical systems.
Fully explaining the grounding and bonding of low-voltage systems as they relate to article 250 of the National Electrical Code®, this essential safety tool provides an analytical approach to accident control to replace the haphazard rules of thumb currently in use.
Table of contents
Preface
Chapter 1. Basic Definitions and Nomenclature
Chapter 2. Fundamentals of Electrical Safety
Chapter 3. Mathematical Principles of Electrical Safety
Chapter 4. The Earth
Chapter 5. Effects of Electric Currents Passing Through the Human Body, and Safety Requirements
Chapter 6. TT Grounding System
Chapter 7. TN Grounding System
Chapter 8. Protective Multiple Earthing (TN-C-S Grounding System
Chapter 9. IT Grounding System
Chapter 10. Extra-Low-Voltage Systems
Chapter 11. Earth Electrodes, Protective Conductors, and Equipotential Bonding Conductors
Chapter 12. Safety Against Overvoltages
Chapter 13. Safety Against Static Electricity
Chapter 14. Testing the Electrical Safety
Chapter 15. Applications of Electrical Safety in Special Locations and Installations
Appendix A. Sinusoids and Phasors
Appendix B. Fundamental Conventions and Electric Circuit Theorems
Appendix C. Fundamental Units, Symbols, and Correct Spellings
Index
