Measure Multi-Grounded Systems
Clamp on the earth cable. The instrument has two cores for voltage injection and current measurement.
1. The voltage transducer injects a defined voltage into the multi-grounded system.
2. From the defined voltage and measured current, the total circuit loop resistance is calculated in the following equation.
Rx + 1/ [ (1/R1) + (1/R2) + (1/R3) + (1/R4) + ... ] = V/I
In a typical multi-grounded system, the parallel resistance value is small enough to be ignored and the equation as referred on the left can be simulated as follows.
Rx = V/I