Alabama's Lightning Season begins in late July and ends in early August, but lightning strikes year-round. Misconceptions spread about lightning, and the wrong information could be dangerous.

SCE admitted in its filing that a conductor failure — meaning ... causing damaged equipment to fall to the ground at the base of the tower. Paul Pimentel of SCE wrote that while the Los Angeles ...

A GFCI does not require an equipment-grounding conductor (green wire) since the GFCI detects an imbalance between the “hot” (black) conductor and the “neutral” (white) conductor. In short: using a ...

High ampere loads require large conductors. Although higher capacity electrical systems require more complex G/B systems with larger equipment grounding conductors (EGCs), the connections and joints ...

experts said that this clearly highlighted the poor maintenance of infrastructure and equipment. A senior Bescom official also stated that since the line was commissioned in 1997, the conductor ...

The most recent power outage that hit the Ninoy Aquino International Airports’ (NAIA) Terminal 3 last Friday was due to an electrical fault caused by grounding conductors which were accidentally left ...

because conductors won’t have to walk long distances over uneven ground from the cab to the problem freight car, Doerr says. Expediters will have better tools and equipment in their trucks, which the ...

Abstract: In many wye electrical systems, the function of the ground and neutral conductor is not differentiated because they are incorrectly joined. From a technical point of view, a connection ...

CIC might contain one cable or three-phase cables, but we have seen up to 4 cable components with a spare or an added equipment grounding conductor being designed using CIC. It is also common in the ...