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Comparison between XGSLab and CDEGS

In this blog, I’m going under to hood, so to speak. Comparing CDEGS with XGSLab to show you some real-world examples where CDEGS and XGSLab give almost identical results.

Therefore, in all of these examples, we have completed and verified the earthing design for these sites and found good agreement between the modelled results and the post-installation measurements. On this basis, we can say that XGSLab matches CDEGS for accuracy, and both tools have good agreement with the real-world measurements.

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Earthing Calculations for Safe System Design

Earthing Calculations regarding your safety – you’re overdue an update!

If 1-ohm is still in circulation on your documentation then this section applies to you.

Even though the Earthing Calculations for determining a safe System Earth (Ground) has shifted away from an arbitrary resistance figure, usually <1 ohm.  It’s still all too common to see this outdated measure of installed success appear on client/employer requirement specifications(ER’s). As part of the Earthing Calculations Design Safety brief.

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What Exactly is a Soil Resistivity Desktop Study?

Before installing an electrical earthing system design, there are a couple of other essential tasks to tackle. One of these tasks is the ‘Soil Resistivity Desktop Study.’ This study illustrated in the Soil Resistivity Table below.

Historically installation companies may have offered to drive a single earth rod into the ground and take a range of readings from it at various depths as it is driven deeper. This approach is now considered totally unacceptable for anything other than the most basic of designs, e.g. a generator earth. [Read more…] about What Exactly is a Soil Resistivity Desktop Study?

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Understanding Electromagnetic Inference using Finite Element Analysis

Finite element analysis (FEA) is a numerical method for solving problems in engineering and applied sciences. It is used to analyze and predict the behavior of complex systems. Such as structures, machines, and electronic devices, under a wide range of conditions (i.e. forces, energies, vibration, heat, fluid flow, and other physical effects).

Finite element analysis shows how something will perform when stressed. Whether it will break, wear out, or work the way it was designed BEFORE it is created, installed or built in the ‘real’ world.

It is called analysis, but in the product development process. It is used to predict what is going to happen when the product is used.

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What is The Importance of Earthing in Electrical Installation?

What is the importance of earthing in the electrical installation?

Here’s a very personal story explaining not only “What” BUT…

…Why Earthing is Important to me.

1. Back Story

How many times are you asked ”What do you do for a living?”. For most of us, it’s quite an easy response “I do this… or I do that”… e.g. “I am an Engineer at a local practice”.  However, recently someone not only asked what I do but asked… “Wow, that’s interesting, you’re a Specialist Electrical Earthing Design Consultant – WHY did you get into that?”

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