{"id":51291,"date":"2015-09-23T14:37:25","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T11:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yilkomer.com\/adim-gerilimi-hesabi\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T06:13:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T03:13:28","slug":"step-voltage-calculation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yilkomer.com\/en\/step-voltage-calculation\/","title":{"rendered":"Step Voltage Calculation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vgblk-rw-wrapper limit-wrapper\">\n<h2><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">What is Step Voltage?<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The potential range at which a human or animal stands in case of a fault, i.e., the distance to the grounding electrode, is the most important factor. This is called <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em><strong>step voltage<\/strong><\/em><\/span>. Step voltage is considered as the potential difference (voltage) across 1 m for humans and 2 m for animals. Using proper <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em><strong><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/yilkomer.com\/topraklama-olcumu-ve-topraklama-raporu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">grounding electrodes<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span>, touch and step voltages can be reduced.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4418\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4418\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4418 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/yilkomer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/ad%C4%B1m-gerilimi-hesab%C4%B1.png\" alt=\"Step voltage calculation\" width=\"360\" height=\"241\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4418\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><br \/>Typical step voltage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Assuming a soil resistivity of 150 \u03a9\/m, a grounding electrode radius of 0.5 m, and 100 V at the electrode, the resistance at a point 4 meters away from the electrode is calculated as:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4419\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4419\" style=\"width: 279px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4419\" src=\"https:\/\/yilkomer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/%C3%B6rnek-ad%C4%B1m-gerilimi-hesab%C4%B1.png\" alt=\"Step voltage calculation example\" width=\"279\" height=\"276\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4419\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><br \/>Step voltage calculation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4422\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4422\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4422\" src=\"https:\/\/yilkomer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/y%C4%B1ld%C4%B1r%C4%B1m-d%C3%BC%C5%9Fme-an%C4%B1.jpg\" alt=\"Reducing step voltage during thunderstorms\" width=\"600\" height=\"375\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4422\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><br \/>During thunderstorms, reducing step voltage minimizes current passing through us.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>How to Protect Against Step Voltage?<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">If we are in open areas during thunderstorms, our heels should be together. The wider the distance between our feet, the more current will pass through us due to the parallel resistance formed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- .vgblk-rw-wrapper --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is Step Voltage? The potential range at which a human or animal stands in case of a fault, i.e., the distance to the grounding electrode, is the most important factor. This is called step voltage. Step voltage is considered as the potential difference (voltage) across 1 m for humans and 2 m for animals&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":992406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yilkomer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yilkomer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yilkomer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yilkomer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yilkomer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yilkomer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":994458,"href":"https:\/\/yilkomer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51291\/revisions\/994458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yilkomer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/992406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yilkomer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yilkomer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yilkomer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}