8 key components for successful grounding and bonding

Dec. 27, 2013
New blog from Chatsworth Products, Inc. (CPI) highlights.

A new blog from Chatsworth Products, Inc. (CPI) highlights the 8 essential components to a successful grounding and bonding implementation.

According to CPI, the key components include:

1. Grounding busbar: Provides a central ground attachment point for equipment located in the data center or equipment room.

2. Compression lugs and taps: Connect copper or tinned copper conductors to busbars, racks, cabinets, cable runways or other conductors.

3. Two-mounting hole ground terminal block: Provides a convenient way to attach ground wires to racks or cabinets.

4. Ground wire and jumpers: Insulated conductor connects equipment, racks, cabinets, pedestals and pipes to the rack and grounding busbars.

5. Rack busbars: Consolidate equipment grounds on racks and cabinets.

6. Pedestal clamp with grounding connector: Connects raised access floor pedestals to the grounding busbar or supports bare ground wires to make a signal reference and grid.

7. Pipe clamp with grounding connector: Attaches ground wires to metal pipes.

8. Cable runway ground strap kit: Bonds cable runway across splices.

Read the entire blog entry at www.chatsworth.com/blog.

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Matt Vincent | Senior Editor

Matt Vincent is a B2B technology journalist, editor and content producer with over 15 years of experience, specializing in the full range of media content production and management, as well as SEO and social media engagement best practices, for both Cabling Installation & Maintenance magazine and its website CablingInstall.com. He currently provides trade show, company, executive and field technology trend coverage for the ICT structured cabling, telecommunications networking, data center, IP physical security, and professional AV vertical market segments. Email: [email protected]

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