Earth-Rite® MULTIPOINT II

Product Description

To ground and monitor multiple items of equipment at points like multi drum loading stations and mixing stations, IBC loading stations and railcar loading gantries, a large number of conventional static grounding systems would be required to minimize the accumulation of static electricity. In addition to flammable liquid and gas operations, powder processing equipment that typically includes interconnected pipes, fluid bed dryers, hoppers and micronizers would require multiple grounding systems. With the Earth-Rite MULTIPOINT II up to eight individual items of potentially isolated equipment can be ground monitored simultaneously with a single static grounding system.

The Earth-Rite MULTIPOINT II is an ATEX / IECEx / cCSAus certified static grounding system which identifies when equipment exceeds ground resistance levels outlined in recommended practice documents like IEC TS 60079-32-1 and NFPA 77.

The system consists of a hazardous area monitoring unit that contains eight pairs of red and green LED indicators that verify when the equipment at risk of static charge accumulation has a resistance of 10 Ohms or less to the plant’s designated true earth grounding point.

For applications where ground monitoring indication is required at the point of operation (e.g. drum filling) local ground status indicator stations can be specified.

Each monitoring channel interfaces with it an individual volt-free contact as standard. In addition to the 8 individual volt free contacts a group relay is provided so that multiple ground monitoring channels can be setup to provide a permissive / nonpermissive condition to external equipment (e.g. PLCs, pumps, valves, sounders).