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Earth, Ground and Neutral

02/05/2008 6:53 PM

i want to know difference for earth,ground,neutral. i want to know diff between fuse and relay.

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Re: electrical engg

02/06/2008 12:16 AM

Hello manisivam

  1. Earth is the electric potential of the local ground in the immediate area of an earth electrode.
  2. Ground is exactly the same as (1) above
  3. Neutral is the star point of a mains-voltage 3 phase system, which is connected to the Earth or Ground connection at the transformer. In the case of a M.E.N. (Multiple Earthed Neutral) system, the Neutral is also connected to an Earth/Ground connection at each Switchboard. This leaves the other wires from the mains transformer at a potential above Ground/Earth, and they are generally called "Phase" or "Active" wires - the ones from which you may receive an electric shock.

4. A Fuse is a metal wire/wires, enclosed generally in an insulating case/enclosure, which melts and breaks the connection after it passes more than the designed continuous current for the fuse.

5. A Relay in electrical terms, is an assembly of (generally) insulated copper wire, wound on an insulating bobbin, over a soft iron core, which has a moveable armature pulled away from the end of the soft iron core by a spring. When the coil is energised, the magnetic field attracts the armature, pulling it towards the end of the soft iron core. There are contact sets insulated from each other and the core/coil, and the movement of the armature may close/open or change-over contact sets. In this way, the originating voltage operating the coil/core/armature, is totally isolated from the contact sets, thus it relays the instruction and may control other circuits.

In the diagram at left, the switch operates the relay, which in turn operates the motor, via the contacts clearly shown.

More complex relays may have several sets of contacts:

  • Make
  • Break
  • Make before break
  • Break before Make
  • Changeover
  • Compound contacts = mixtures of the above.

Hope that assists you.

Kind Regards....

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Re: electrical engg

02/06/2008 3:47 AM

Earth and ground are the same .Neutral is the junction of 3phases connected in star.A fuse is used to protect circuits against overload which reflects as a excess current.Many types of fuses were in Vogue like the ordinary wire fuse in Porcelain housing used in houses to HRC fuses.With the advent of MCB's and mccb's less and less of fuse is used.In certain cases HRC fuses are used as back up against mainly short circuit.Fuse once it blows needs a replacement .Relay is a vast subject.It monitors different parameters which it is designed to. With advent of electronic relays many functions can be combined in a single relay.It operates and protects the circuits/ devices and can be reset.For a detailed reading you can refer to a good hand book on Electrical Engineering.

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Re: electrical engg

02/09/2008 1:59 AM

< earth,= MOTHER EARTH

ground,= BODY of anything--TV,Computer,Motor---

neutral.= the reference potential-which is mostly Earth connected

i want to know diff between

fuse= something melting and thus conductive path discontinued--thus protecting others down the current path

and relay= Senses overload( overvoltage/undervoltage---------) and causes disconnection and so protecting other loads down the line.

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Re: Earth, Ground and Neutral

09/09/2009 7:25 AM

What I understand from your question that you are asking about the difference among earthing, grounding & neutra. If I my guess is right then difference is as follows :

Earthing - Non current carrying metallic part of an electrical equipment is conncted to ground potential through copper / GI conductor for safety to operating personnel. This is called earthing.

Grounding - The neutral point of a star connected electrical equipment (solidly grouded or through NGR) or artificial neutral of delta connected equipments (through zig zag transformer) are connected to the ground potential for earth fault protection & to divert the unbalnce circulating current to the ground. This is called grounding.

The other points are nicely covered by other members.

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