By Is your installation electrically safe?
This question comes in our mind whenever we read news in the morning often whenever we read fire or electrical accident news. Our mind asks, is our own installation safe? Follow few tips and if you have doubt, dont forget to take help of electrical safety engineer or electrical safety auditor.
1. Does installation have nos of earthings as required by Central Electricity Authority Regulations? Remember, in case of fault, the body of equipment like Coolers, Microwave Oven, Washing Machines etc may attain phase voltage. If earthing system is healthy, the voltage on the equipments falls with in safe limits. At the same time, over current caused due to the presence of earthing allows devices like MCBs or fuse to trip and may save human Life. Earthings supplied by reputed sources like 3E Solutions has higher life and better dependence.
2. Check earthings healthiness once a year by expert electrician. Continuous higher fault currents through earthings may increase the surrounding temperatures such high that it may start evaporating water around and ultimately lead to failure of earthings. Choose Chemical earthings supplied by 3E Solutions for better performance.
3. What if our equipment may overload ? : Sometimes, due to internal faults, the equipment start drawing higher current and it may not only burn the equipment, but also over heat and in turn generate flames in conductor insulation. Careful MCB-Conductor cordination may prevent it.
4. Loose wires or improper wiring hanging on walls is most common cause in electrical accidents. The circuit lengths increase demand increase in conductor size.
5. RCCB – Residual Current Circuit Breakers if installed will eliminate the ground faults by tripping the mains on small leakage current due to ground fault and hence necessary in all types of installations.
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