{"id":641,"date":"2012-06-22T20:51:38","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T20:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/?p=641"},"modified":"2012-06-22T20:51:38","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T20:51:38","slug":"during-the-design-stage-of-an-electrical-installation-why-do-i-need-to-know-prospective-earth-fault-current","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/?p=641","title":{"rendered":"during the design stage of an electrical installation why do i need to know prospective earth fault current?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><i>Question by spiderb<\/i>: during the design stage of an electrical installation why do i need to know prospective earth fault current?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Best answer:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>Answer by Jeremy D<\/i><br \/>You would need to know the available fault current of the system in order to properly rate the electrical components. Most all types of electrical switchgear have a fault current interrupting capacity rating. All components must have an interrupting capacity of at least as high as the available fault current.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Add your own answer in the comments!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question by spiderb: during the design stage of an electrical installation why do i need to know prospective earth fault current? Best answer: Answer by Jeremy DYou would need to know the available fault current of the system in order to properly rate the electrical components. Most all types of electrical switchgear have a fault [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[550,11,480,1583,882,21,884,98,92,1736,1735],"class_list":["post-641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design-flaws","tag-current","tag-design","tag-during","tag-earth","tag-electrical","tag-fault","tag-installation","tag-know","tag-need","tag-prospective","tag-stage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}