Grounding whip
A grounding whip is a mobile equipment electrical engineering, often in high-voltage laboratories is used to plant parts of an experimental setup ground while working on this or rebuilding them.
When working on the test field, there is a risk from live parts if high-voltage transformers have not been properly switched off, or from charged capacitors that can discharge when touched by the human body. As dangerous currents are from about 50 mA. Ground whips consist of a massive handle (usually wood or plastic) in which a strong stiff wire with a hook is embedded. This is attached or thrown to the critical components or metallic connections that are being worked on. The whip has a long, flexible grounding cable that is conductively fixed to a grounding point in the building in order to safely divert dangerous body currents.
literature
- Andreas Küchler: High voltage technology . 2nd Edition. Springer, ISBN 3-540-21411-9 .