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SHOULD THE LA EARTH PIT SHOULD BE INTER CONNECTED WITH SYSTEM EARTH PIT??

SHOULD THE LA EARTH PIT SHOULD BE INTER CONNECTED WITH SYSTEM EARTH PIT??

SHOULD THE LA EARTH PIT SHOULD BE INTER CONNECTED WITH SYSTEM EARTH PIT??

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SHOULD THE LA EARTH PIT SHOULD BE INTER CONNECTED WITH SYSTEM EARTH PIT IN AN HRB ?

RE: SHOULD THE LA EARTH PIT SHOULD BE INTER CONNECTED WITH SYSTEM EARTH PIT??

Don't shout! Capitalizing everything is bad manners because it implies that you are SHOUTING.

What is your LA - a lightning arrester I presume. I refer to it as a surge arrester.

What is an HRB?

This doesn't sound like a North American installation. It might help if you mention what part of the world this is from.

RE: SHOULD THE LA EARTH PIT SHOULD BE INTER CONNECTED WITH SYSTEM EARTH PIT??

If you intend to know if you may interconnect the lighting protection grounding with grounding grid this is the answer:
NFPA 780 Standard for the Installation of Lightning Protection Systems states:
4.14 Common Grounding.
4.14.1 General. All grounding media in or on a structure shall be interconnected to provide a common
ground potential.
4.14.1.1 This interconnection shall include lightning protection, electric service, telephone, and
antenna system grounds, as well as underground metallic piping systems.

RE: SHOULD THE LA EARTH PIT SHOULD BE INTER CONNECTED WITH SYSTEM EARTH PIT??

7anoter4, Trust this earthing interconnection is applicable for transformer winding neutral also. Should we go for common earthing electrode for LA earth, transformer tank ground and transformer neutral earthing?

RE: SHOULD THE LA EARTH PIT SHOULD BE INTER CONNECTED WITH SYSTEM EARTH PIT??

You are right. At first there are a lot of ways to connected the transformer neutral with the grounding grid. No standard states for us the preferred method.
NEC art.250.36 High-Impedance Grounded Neutral Systems. Low voltage 480 to 1000 V.
(C) System Grounding Connection. The system shall not be connected to ground except through the grounding impedance.
IEEE 142 ch.1.4 Methods of system neutral grounding presents also a lot of connection methods
In my opinion, one has to choose the right one.

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