WHY DO YOU NEED EARTHING AND LIGHTNING PROTECTION?

Earthing and lightning protection is extremely important for the safety of everyone using electrical equipment. Electronic equipment has become an important part of our lives. There is absolutely no one in this world who doesn’t use any kind of electronic equipment. We all have some kind of electrical equipment in our lives and our homes. Earthing and lightning protection is extra important for small children as they do not know how to be cautious around electricity. Not many people know about earthing and lightning protection which protect us against electric shock. Many high-end expensive devices fail due to a lack of earthing and lightning protection.

Let’s dive deeper and understand what exactly is earthing and Lightning and how it works. Let’s talk about earthing first.

EARTHING PROTECTION

In simple words, earthing is a connection between electrical equipment and an earth plate or earth electrode through a thick wire and rod of low resistance material to provide the ultimate protection is known as the earthing.

It works as a security measure to protect human life from electrical shocks. Besides this, the main purpose of the earthing system is to provide an alternate route for the flow of current (leakage) so that accidents and electric shocks cannot result in any casualties of human life or other accidents. It also avoids equipment failure due to any kind of leakage. Most people avoid this earthing protection just to save some bucks. Some people install low quality cheap earthing plates with high resistance. High resistance earthing is not good for your safety. Always go for good quality low resistance. MCB and RCCB cannot function without good things. It requires a path to discharge leakage current.