broadgage:
At the generator I would connect together all the following
Alternator star point.
Frame or enclosure of the machine.
One or more local earth rods.
Outgoing neutral conductor to load.
Outgoing earth conductor to load.
Any nearby building metalwork or pipes etc.
A suitable bonding conductor to the MET of the existing installation. (Unless the existing DNO supplied installation is so distant as to render this irrelevant)
The supply from the generator to the load will therefore be 5 wire, with a seperate neutral and earth, so as to resemble a public supply of type TN-S.
Thanks, this is along the lines of what I was thinking.
I was unsure about connection to the MET as I thought I read somewhere not to do this? There again if I bond to anything which is bonded to the MET then thats pretty much the same thing!
RCDs??
broadgage:
At the generator I would connect together all the following
Alternator star point.
Frame or enclosure of the machine.
One or more local earth rods.
Outgoing neutral conductor to load.
Outgoing earth conductor to load.
Any nearby building metalwork or pipes etc.
A suitable bonding conductor to the MET of the existing installation. (Unless the existing DNO supplied installation is so distant as to render this irrelevant)
The supply from the generator to the load will therefore be 5 wire, with a seperate neutral and earth, so as to resemble a public supply of type TN-S.
Thanks, this is along the lines of what I was thinking.
I was unsure about connection to the MET as I thought I read somewhere not to do this? There again if I bond to anything which is bonded to the MET then thats pretty much the same thing!
RCDs??
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