Description
Book SynopsisGuidance Note 8: Earthing & Bonding includes information from BS 7430 Code of Practice for Earthing. It covers key guidance for all involved with specifying, designing, installing or verifying electrical installations and has been fully updated to BS 7671:2018+A2:2022.
BS 7671:2018+A2:2022 incorporates changes from the first amendment, published in 2020, regarding Electric Vehicle Charging Installations to provide greater guidance on embracing changing technology within this sector. Additional changes within the second amendment include protection against thermal effects and fire caused by electrical equipment, protection against voltage disturbances and electromagnetic disturbances, and a new chapter on prosumer's low-voltage electrical installations covering energy efficiency measures, the interface with the smart grid, the management of electricity consumption, the management of renewable sources of electricity, and energy storage.
Table of Contents
- Cooperating organizations
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Protective earthing
- Chapter 2: The means of earthing
- Chapter 3: The earthing conductor
- Chapter 4: System types and earthing arrangements
- Chapter 5: Protective equipotential bonding
- Chapter 6: Extraneous-conductive-parts and their connections
- Chapter 7: Automatic disconnection
- Chapter 8: Supplementary protective equipotential bonding
- Chapter 9: Circuit protective conductors
- Chapter 10: Particular issues of earthing and bonding
- Appendix A: Values of k for various forms of protective conductor
- Appendix B: Data for armoured cables
- Index
