NEC in the Facility

April 27, 2009
How can you make an intrinsically safe system unsafe? Ground it. If you’ve just done a double-take on that, read the Art. 100 definitions of grounding and bonding.

How can you make an intrinsically safe system unsafe? Ground it.

If you’ve just done a double-take on that, read the Art. 100 definitions of grounding and bonding.

To keep these systems safe, remove the difference of potential (and thus a flashover danger) from them and the metal objects around them. To do this:

  1. Connect intrinsically safe apparatus, enclosures, and raceways (if metallic) to the equipment grounding (bonding) conductor [504.50].
  2. Bond all metallic objects of the system per 250.100 [504.60].

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