Chapter 4 Installing option cards and DIMMs 67

Attaching the antistatic wrist strap

Nortel ships the VPN Router 2750 with an antistatic wrist strap. The antistatic wrist strap directs the discharge of static electricity from your body to the chassis of the gateway to avoid damage to sensitive electronic components.

You must wear an antistatic wrist strap on your arm when you remove, install, or handle option cards and DIMMs.

Caution: Risk of equipment damage

Electrostatic discharge can damage hardware. Follow the procedure in this section to protect your equipment from damage.

To attach the antistatic wrist strap:

1Locate the antistatic wrist strap, and verify that the cable is attached to the wrist strap.

2Place the strap around your wrist, and adjust the strap to ensure that the metal buckle inside the strap touches your skin.

3Insert the banana plug into the grounding jack at the rear of the chassis (Figure 23).

Figure 23 Location of the grounding jack for the antistatic wrist strap

Grounding jack

VPN Router 2750

 

 

 

 

 

100 - 240 V~

LAN0

LAN1

 

 

 

5 - 3 A

Power

 

 

 

 

60 - 50 Hz

 

 

 

 

 

Serial Port

 

 

 

 

 

 

1

2

3

4

 

 

 

 

 

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Nortel Networks 2750 manual Attaching the antistatic wrist strap