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Guidance Note 8: Earthing and Bonding
By Geoffrey Stokes
Price: £25 / $47
Available: 2007
Format: Paperback
Product code: PWRG0241
ISBN: 0-86341-616-0 & 978-0-86341-616-3
Pagination: 184 pp.
Description
Scope: This new Guidance Note is part of a series issued by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (formerly known as the Institution of Electrical Engineers) to enlarge upon and simplify some of the requirements in BS 7671: 2001 Requirements for Electrical Installations (also entitled the IEE Wiring Regulations, Sixteenth Edition), as amended by Amendment No 2: 2004. This book is fully illustrated in colour throughout, thereby offering high quality diagrams and examples for ease of use.
On publication of the 17th edition of the IEE Wiring Regulations in January 2008, updates to Guidance Note 8 will be made freely available on the IET's website.
About the Author
Geoffrey Stokes is the Managing Director of Benchmark Electrical Safety Technology Ltd which provides professional electrical safety services for industry. He was previously the Principal Engineer of the NICEIC.
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Book readership
This publication will be of interest to electrical contractors, consulting engineers, architects involved in building services projects, and lecturers and those involved in City & Guilds training.
Book contents
Introduction. Protective Earthing. The Means of Earthing. The Earthing Conductor. System Types and Earthing Arrangements. Main Equipotential Bonding. Extraneous Conductive Parts and their Connections. Automatic Disconnetion. Supplementary Equipotential Bonding. Circuit Protective Conductors. Particular Issues of Earthing and Bonding
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