Page 140 of 332 Chapter 11 – Installing the system ground

Consider the Main Chassis and the Chassis Expander as the same ground. Jumper the ground wire from the Chassis Expander to the Main Chassis. Then, connect the ground wire from the Main Chassis to the grounding block.

See Table 26 for region-specific grounding requirements.

Chassis powered by different service panels

For each Main Chassis, connect a #6 AWG (#40 Metric Wire Gauge) ground wire from the Main Chassis to an NTBK80 grounding block. If any chassis cannot be powered from the same service panel, ground it separately from the other chassis back to the service panel that supplies it. All Main Chassis and Chassis Expander pairs must be powered from the same service panel.

See Table 26 for region-specific grounding requirements.

Table 26

Region-specific grounding wire requirements

Region

Grounding wire requirements

 

 

Germany

#8 AWG (10 mm2) green/yellow wire

Other regions in Europe

not smaller than #6 AWG (16 mm2) at any

 

point

UK

two green/yellow wires no thinner than

 

two 10 mm2

553-3021-209 Standard 3.00 April 2000

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