How do you think they do earthing or grounding in ships and aeroplanes?

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How do you think they do earthing or grounding in ships and
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How do you think they do earthing or grounding in ships and aeroplanes?..

Answer / shailesh

THE BODY OF Ship/Aircraft acts as earth.

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How do you think they do earthing or grounding in ships and aeroplanes?..

Answer / piero

most of cruise ships use NGR (Neutral Grounding Resistor)
connected from the star point of the generators to the hull
of the ship, so the ship is a giant grounding electrode

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How do you think they do earthing or grounding in ships and aeroplanes?..

Answer / prabhu

kidly refer to this site... might be much useful.

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How do you think they do earthing or grounding in ships and aeroplanes?..

Answer / ram niveth

neutral is connected to the body of aircraft/ship.so body
is considered as earth for sensing earth fault

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How do you think they do earthing or grounding in ships and aeroplanes?..

Answer / bimal

ONboard ship they use insulated neutral system ie the neutral is not having a 4th cable thats grounds it.hence the distribution system is 3 phase 3 wire system instead of 3 ph 4 wire as in shore systems

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How do you think they do earthing or grounding in ships and aeroplanes?..

Answer / ganeshkutteshwaran

actually i dont know...kindly refer to wikipedia

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How do you think they do earthing or grounding in ships and aeroplanes?..

Answer / logesh kumar.a

they use d.c

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How do you think they do earthing or grounding in ships and aeroplanes?..

Answer / s.arunachalakumar

i think aeroplanes earthing provid by using air. Beacase
air can act as a conductor.ships earthed by using sea
water. beacase water is a conductor.

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How do you think they do earthing or grounding in ships and aeroplanes?..

Answer / kumar

I think there v r using DC only..so no need of dc..

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