alaveny Posted May 14, 2005 Report Share Posted May 14, 2005 Hi everybody....in my place there is a poor electricity and thats because of neutral we are geting.So now i decided to build my own neutral or earthing for my house.So please give me idea on how to build it?Thanks in advance............................................................................................thanks for the beautiful forum it really helped me alot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alaveny Posted May 14, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 14, 2005 Yap thanks but please i appricated if it would be in litle bit in details.what materials shold i need and how to fix it under earth etc ..Thanks in advance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alaveny Posted May 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 15, 2005 hiwhat i did before was that i brought 5 feet tall metal pipe 5 inces wide.and dig up 6feet and put coal,salt,copper plates.yet didn't get the power out of my earthing.The lights were very dim.So where was i wrong? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
audioguru Posted May 15, 2005 Report Share Posted May 15, 2005 Your soil is too dry for your small grounding rod. Try a rod a few hundred feet long. If it strikes oil, you'll be rich. If it strikes water then your lights might be bright. If it strikes gold you'll have both! ;DIn my country, electricity is distributed to me with a neutral wire. My electricity supplier's high voltage transmission lines have a very good grounding method. Maybe your problem is with the high-voltage ground return, not at your house. Complain to your supplier or stop paying them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Alun Posted May 15, 2005 Report Share Posted May 15, 2005 Every country I know of uses at least a two wire system for domestic electricity distribution. The Neutral wire is always at well grounded and the live is at mains potential. If you're having a problem with the neutral wire grounding it any more won't make any difference. The only reason to increase the grounding would be if a voltage is discoveded on the neutral. I bet if the neutral isn't very well conected then the life connection won't be any better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prateeksikka Posted May 15, 2005 Report Share Posted May 15, 2005 deeper buried the ground wire better it is considered.it must have some metal and then a layer of stones around. ;D ;D ;Dprateek Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alaveny Posted May 16, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 16, 2005 Great guys and wounderful advice yap indeed if the rod striked the gold then i will just say WOW and i will be in the richest list...My voltage must have been 220v but unfortunatly due to poor maintance i get only 150-160v....By the way i have multimeter but never used on sockets where electricity is.1-so how to check the ground neutral using digital multimeter?2-i need to check the voltage using digital meter and i have a marking where i can rotate to use the sutable choose.Should i rotate the rotator of digital multimeter to ACV 750 to check thee types of current? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prateeksikka Posted May 16, 2005 Report Share Posted May 16, 2005 hi there!thats not a big thing to worry!upto 50V u can play with!grounding is a problem at high voltage,just make a small pit and put the wire in it.cover with mud!thats it.Alas!your gold plans lost! ;D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prateeksikka Posted May 17, 2005 Report Share Posted May 17, 2005 that is not at all the case. most multimeters have ac options in them .and they give rms value as the reading on their panels.i verified that i am getting 230V rms in my home many times using even the cheapest meters available. ;Dprateek Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alaveny Posted May 19, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 19, 2005 Thanks a million guys. you were all great.. keep it up.i appriciate every singal word you guys tried to explain.Thanks....................................................................................Surly one of the best forum on net and thats because of wounderful helping nature guys like you all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alaveny Posted May 19, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 19, 2005 Gus is there any way to convert 220v to 120-150 volt .Please provide any diagram or schematic with little details furnished.Regards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prateeksikka Posted May 19, 2005 Report Share Posted May 19, 2005 hi alaveny!thanks a lothi tnk2k!my house draws 32A from the mains at full load conditional only the Air conditioner is switched off.I have never tried switching all the devices together for the sake of safety.My wiring is precious. ;DBut i am sure even if i switch on the AC,you can add a few more amperes to it.in nut shell not more than 40A.prateek Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Alun Posted May 19, 2005 Report Share Posted May 19, 2005 Gus is there any way to convert 220v to 120-150 volt .Please provide any diagram or schematic with little details furnished.Regards Yes you can buy transformers for this purpose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prateeksikka Posted May 19, 2005 Report Share Posted May 19, 2005 hi !yes transformer is what u require and in case it is dc u dont even need that.a simple pot will do the job.hey alun!why dont we use a pot for ac also?i guess we can (i mean a potential divider)no? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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