Re: Grounding a metal cabinet


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Posted by Dave K on 11, 2001 at 7:13 PM:

In Reply to: Re: Grounding a metal cabinet posted by JoelS on 11, 2001 at 3:54 PM:

Its your monitor. The monitor chasis is the ground for the monitor, and its probably sitting in a metal frame attached to your metal cab. See if you have a ground wire from the monitor chasis to the power supply.

-Dave

: Right now the computer is outside the cabinet sitting on the floor. The controls are mounted in a control panel detached from the arcade and also sitting on the floor. The only connection between the arcade and the computer right now is through the video cable. It seems to ground the cabinet through the video cables shielding to the computer case.

: Hmmmm.. It seems that I can ground the cabinet by connecting (through myself) to the computer case which is grounded so it makes sense that I could ground the whole case by attaching the ground wire directly to the metal cabinet. I could test by checking to see if there is continuity between the power supplys wired ground and the metal cabinet.

: Thanks for the help everyone! This board rocks.

: J




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