Clients often ask us why we use CDEGS HIFREQ instead of any of the other packages available in the market. And our usual response is simply. “It’s the market leading product (Top 1%)”. So, I thought it might be useful to quantify exactly why it is the leading product and also why it commands a leading price. In addition, to demonstrate how some of the less capable products leave you and your staff exposed to unquantified risks. [Read more…] about Why Greymatters Consultants Use CDGEGS HIFREQ Earth Modelling Software
Soil Resistivity Testing Methods
Soil Resistivity & Soil Resistivity Testing Methods – A few short Videos
Soil Resistivity Video(s)
Here is a collection of Soil Resistivity Video(s); some are from us, the team at Greymatters and others sourced from Youtube. Can you spot the real guys..?
Here’s Ian of Greymatters (not feeling 100%) carrying out a field soil resistivity survey. [Read more…] about Soil Resistivity & Soil Resistivity Testing Methods – A few short Videos
Understanding Soil Resistivity & Soil Resistivity Testing Methods
Understanding Soil Resistivity is critical to Electrical Earthing System Design.
Soil Resistivity
Soil resistivity is a measure of how much the soil resists the flow of electricity. So an understanding of the soil resistivity and how it varies with depth in the soil is necessary to design the grounding – earthing system in an electrical installation.
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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 approached 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?
Soil Resistivity Testing – 3 Helpful Tips to Avoid Common Mistakes
We receive a lot of questions asking ‘How to do a Wenner test?‘ or ‘What are the steps in a soil resistivity testing?‘… The key thing to take away, is that once you have the appropriate equipment**… the act of ‘doing’ a Wenner Soil Resistivity Test is not that complicated. However, you must take a consistent, systematic approach to the task, otherwise the chances of error creeping-in are high and will appear discretely, sometimes without you noticing (unless you have the means to process the data on-site during the task).
It’s imperative to understand, errors in the data at this early stage of the process for electrical earthing design can be disastrous. Disastrous for safety from the system, and disastrous from a functional perspective for the earthing system (grounding).
So, in this video, we take a real-life scenario in the mountains (Wind Turbine farm) and point out a few tips and ‘tricks of the trade’ to reduce error when carrying out Wenner soil resistivity testing in geologically challenging terrain.
** Signal strength from the instruments should be sufficiently penetrating for the ground structure under study to enable adequate sounding-depth and analysis for the subsequent Soil Model to be produced for a safe HV Earthing Design.
In-video Introduction [00:00]
We’ve got our kit, consisting of two DET 2’s, a set of leads (pairs, e.g. 4 leads in total), the leads span 300 metres total, so we’re getting probe spacings up to 100 metres. [Read more…] about Soil Resistivity Testing – 3 Helpful Tips to Avoid Common Mistakes