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Article 2.50 Grounding and Bonding
This Article contains requirements for grounding and bonding.
These entail providing a path(s) to divert high voltage to the
earth, requirements for the low-impedance fault current path to
facilitate the operation of overcurrent protection devices, and
how to remove dangerous voltage potentials between conductive
parts of building components and electricalsystems.
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Bonding (Art 1.1) –
permanent joining
of metallic parts to
form an electrically
conductive path
that ensures
electrical continuity
and the capacity to
conduct safely any
current likely
imposed
Bonding Jumper (p.7) 4

Bonding Jumper (Art

1.1) – A reliable
conductor to ensure
the required
conductivity between
metal parts required
to be electrically
connected.
2.50.1.2 Ground-Fault (p.190) 5

Ground Fault – An
unintentional, electrically
conducting connection
between an ungrounded
conductor of an electrical
circuit and the normally
non- current carrying
conductors, metallic
enclosures, metallic
raceways, metallic
equipment or earth
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(p.191)
Ground Fault Current
Path – An electrically
conductive path from
the point of the ground
fault on a wiring system
through normally non-
current carrying
conductors, equipment,
or the earth to the
electrical supply source
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Current Path (p.190)
Effective Ground Fault Current
Path – An intentionally
constructed, permanent, low-
impedance electrically
conductive path designed and
intended to carry current
under ground-fault conditions
from the point of a ground
fault on a wiring system to the
electrical supply source and
that facilities the operation of
the overcurrent protective
device or ground fault
detectors on high impedance
grounded system
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Path
The effective
ground-fault
current path is
intended to help
remove dangerous
voltage from a
ground fault by
opening the circuit
overcurrent
protective device.
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Equipment (p.14)
Grounding Conductor,
Equipment (Art 1.1) – The
conductor used to connect
non-current carrying metal
parts of equipment,
raceways, or other
enclosures to the system
grounded conductor, the
grounding electrode
conductor or both, at the
service equipment or at the
source of a separately
derived system.
Ground (p.13) 10

Ground (Art 1.1) – A

conducting connection,
whether intentional or
accidental, between an
electrical circuit or
equipment and the earth
or to some conducting
body that serves place of
the earth

Grounded (Art 1.1) –

connected to earth or to
some conducting body that
servesin place of the earth
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Conductor (p.13)
Grounding
Conductor (Art 1.1)
– A conductor used
to connect
equipment or the
grounded circuit of
a wiring system to a
grounding electrode
or electrodes.
Grounding Electrode (p.14) 12

Grounding
Electrode (Article
1.1)
– A device
establishes an
electrical
connection to
the earth
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(p.14)
Grounding Electrode (Art
1.1)
– The conductor used to
connect the grounding
electrode(s) to the
equipment grounding
conductor, to the
grounded, or to both at the
service, at each building or
structure where supplied
by a feeder(s) or branch
circuit(s), or at the source
of separately derived
system.
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Bonding Jumper,
Main (Art 1.1)
– The connection
between the
grounded circuit
conductor and the
equipment
grounding
conductor at the
service
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Grounded,
Solidly (Art 1.1) –
Connected to
ground without
any inserting any
resistor or
impedance