HI All
My workshop has seven welding stations. Each station has a turntable and DC tig machine. The weldors keep burning out turntable power cables. This shows me that there is a grounding fault. Now there are numerous solutions to this; Better training, permentant earth bond etc. None of which work. Permanant bonding gets cut to move the machine and with more training workers still forget the grounding clamp.
An ELCB fitted to each welding machine seams to be the best solution. I beleve the fault coil in the earth line will prevent future occurances by triping a braker accross the live neutral supply. So how can i do this? it would be cumbersome to fit an individual consumer unit with ELCB to each socket. The machine could be moved to a diffrent plug circumventing the protection. Is there an inline device or a unit that will replace the plug like an RCD plug form factor but as an ELCB?
As a side note Miller machines detect this fault but the EWM units don't.
My workshop has seven welding stations. Each station has a turntable and DC tig machine. The weldors keep burning out turntable power cables. This shows me that there is a grounding fault. Now there are numerous solutions to this; Better training, permentant earth bond etc. None of which work. Permanant bonding gets cut to move the machine and with more training workers still forget the grounding clamp.
An ELCB fitted to each welding machine seams to be the best solution. I beleve the fault coil in the earth line will prevent future occurances by triping a braker accross the live neutral supply. So how can i do this? it would be cumbersome to fit an individual consumer unit with ELCB to each socket. The machine could be moved to a diffrent plug circumventing the protection. Is there an inline device or a unit that will replace the plug like an RCD plug form factor but as an ELCB?
As a side note Miller machines detect this fault but the EWM units don't.
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