EPC 2050 - Bonding & Grounding

Clock Hours: 22

Delivery Mode
on-ground

Prerequisites: EPC 2040 - Conduit-Bending

Course Description:
This course explains the grounding and bonding of electrical equipment as it relates to Article 250 in the NEC code book.

Student Learning Outcomes:

Connections of grounding and bonding equipment.
The importance of providing clean surfaces for grounding and bonding connections.
Systems that are required to be grounded, those that are permitted but not required to be grounded, and those circuits that are not permitted to be grounded.
Grounding requirements for grounded systems.
Installing and sizing grounded service and system conductors.
System conductors that are required to be grounded.
Function and sizing of main and system bonding jumpers.
Grounding requirements for separately derived systems.
Grounding for two or more buildings supplied by a feeder or branch circuit.
Requirements for grounding portable and vehicle-mounted generators.
Requirements for high-impedance grounded neutral systems.
Requirements for the use of a common grounding electrode.
Installation requirements for grounding electrode conductors.
Minimum size of grounding electrode conductors.
Methods for connecting grounding and bonding conductors to grounding electrodes.
Using building structural metal members and water pipes as grounding electrode conductors.
Grounding requirements for service raceways and enclosures.
Grounding requirements for other conductor enclosures and raceways.
General requirements for bonding.
Bonding requirements for services.
Bonding requirements for other enclosures.
Bonding in hazardous locations.
Material for, attachment of, and sizing equipment bonding jumpers.
Bonding of metal piping and exposed structural steel.
Bonding of lightning protection system.
Types of acceptable equipment grounding conductors.
Identification requirements for equipment grounding conductors.
Installation requirements for equipment grounding conductors.
The minimum size of equipment grounding conductors.
Rules for continuity of equipment grounding conductors.
Means of identification of wiring device terminals.
Grounding requirements for agricultural buildings and structures supplied overhead and underground from a site-isolation device.
Requirements for an equipotential plane and for GFCI protection in agricultural buildings or structures.
Grounding and bonding requirements for services and feeders for mobile homes and manufactured homes.