For Electrical Contractors
Earthing Materials for Electrical Contractors
You're pricing a job and you need three things: a rate that's real today, a quantity you can trust, and material that turns up. That's the whole relationship. We stock in Bengaluru, we quote the live market rate rather than a padded list price, and the test certificate comes in the box.
How We Work
How we work with contractors
Today's rate, not last quarter's
GI is priced off steel and copper off copper, and both move continuously. We don't publish a price list because it would be wrong within days — and we'd have to pad it to cover the movement, which you'd pay for. Send size, quantity and delivery location; you get the real number for that day. Here's exactly how our pricing works.
Stocked, not sourced-to-order
GI strip (GI patti) from 25×3 to 75×12 mm, copper strip, GI pipe, plates, salt, charcoal and funnels — held in Bengaluru. Same-day or next-day dispatch on standard sizes.
MTC in the box, at no extra cost
You will be asked for it at handover. It ships with the material, so you're not chasing us for paperwork three weeks after the job.
Free Tools
Price the job before you quote it
Free, no sign-up. Work out the tonnage and the pit count, then send us the list.
Earthing BOQ Builder
Soil resistivity and a target resistance in; pit count, pipe, strip, salt, charcoal and accessories out. Sends the whole list to us on WhatsApp in one tap.
Open the calculator → Free toolStrip Weight Calculator
Strip is sold by weight, not length. Convert your metres to kilograms before you ask for a rate — it's the same chart we invoice against.
Open the calculator → Free toolPipe Weight Calculator
GI pipe weight per metre by nominal bore and class, from the IS 1239 (Part 1) tables.
Open the calculator → Free toolEarth Resistance Calculator
How many pits you actually need to hit the target — shown as a realistic range, so you don't under-order and miss the test.
Open the calculator →Please read. These figures are general projections, not a design. They are estimates based on published formulae, standard weight data and assumed uniform soil conditions — real sites vary, and the numbers here may not be 100% accurate. They are offered as a working aid only. Global Electric Company accepts no liability for decisions taken on the basis of these results: always have them checked and signed off by your site engineer, electrical consultant or a qualified professional, and confirm earth resistance by measurement on site before commissioning. Where these tools and IS 3043 disagree, IS 3043 wins.
Worth Knowing
A warning worth reading
Most parallel-pit calculators (including ours, until we fixed it) tell you that n pits give you R ÷ n. They don't. Electrodes sit in one another's resistance field, so the real figure is meaningfully higher — which means a BOQ sized on R ÷ n buys you too few pits and you miss your acceptance test. Our BOQ builder now sizes against the realistic figure. It will recommend more pits than the naive maths does. That is the point.
Send the Size and Quantity
Size, quantity, delivery location. You'll have today's actual rate back, usually within the hour.
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