The Easiest Way to Bond And Ground Your Network Installation in 2024

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In this week’s video our Technical Manager, Don Schultz, and Technical Specialist, Dave Harris, install the brand new trueCABLE Shielded Patch Panel! The cover some of the product's features, some things you should know about your outlet prior to installation, the installation process, and more!
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Video Time Codes:
[0:00-1:02] - Intro & Overview
[1:03-2:30] - Confirming Your Outlet is Properly Bonded to Ground
[2:31-3:15] - Installing the truePLUG Overview
[3:16-4:14] - Removing Stock Bond Wire & Attaching truePLUG
[4:15-4:29] - Plugging in the truePLUG
[4:30-4:53] - Outro
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27 июн 2024

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@williamhicks2763 8 месяцев назад

If you have two shielded patch panels in a U15 floor standing rack, is it OK to mount the patch panels to the rack that is painted. It seems like you are saying to not do that. So would you run a wire from one patch panel to the screw on the other patch panel, on the unpainted part, and connect the grounding plug wire to the same screw? The two patch panels are a little too far apart to use the included short ground wire to connect them together.

@trueCABLE 8 месяцев назад

Hello William! Nope, don't do that. It is never a good idea to daisy chain bond like you are envisioning. You can mount the shielded patch panels to a painted rack, but the bond wires should be bonded separately. That all said, a simple way of going about this is to use TWO of our bond and ground adapters. Connect one to each shielded patch panel, replacing the stock bond wires, and then use two AC outlets to bond them to ground. That will greatly simply things, I think. There is a much more complex way of going about this using rack bus bars and secondary bus bars, but it sounds like your setup does not have that formal infrastructure to bond to.

@KrisLowet87 9 месяцев назад

Can you tell -in another video- something more about grounding network cables between multiple buildings with different grounds? Thanks.

@trueCABLE 9 месяцев назад

Hello! We don't have a video that addresses that, but we do have a written blog with diagrams in our Cable Academy which details ground loops and how to avoid them. Here is the blog I am referring to: www.truecable.com/blogs/cable-academy/how-to-fix-a-ground-loop.

@KrisLowet87 9 месяцев назад

@@trueCABLE great, thanks!

@aliazimi91 7 месяцев назад

if i have two shielded patch panels.. could i get two of these bond cables (one for each panel) and run them into the UPS in my rack? Or would it be better to just run them both directly into wall sockets, one socket per cable? I have both a PDU and a UPS in my rack (PDU connecting to UPS and then UPS to AC outlet) and I'd rather not have the bond cables leave the rack and just stay plugged in within the rack if possible. Appreciate any answers you can give!

@trueCABLE 7 месяцев назад

The Bond & Ground Extension Wire Adapter is intended to be used only with a properly installed AC wall socket. If you bond the two shielded patch panels together, only one ground adapter plug will be required.

@aliazimi91 7 месяцев назад

@@trueCABLE how do i bond two patch panels together and then run a ground wire to the wall?

@trueCABLE 7 месяцев назад

@@aliazimi91 Hello Ali! There are three ways you can go. You can either use a RBB (rack busbar) that is attached to your rack (wall mount or floor standing rack). A RBB is a copper bar that is bonded to ground on it's own, RBBs are typically connected to a SBB or Secondary Busbar that is mounted on the outside of your wall adjacent to your rack. The SBB is then bonded via a thick copper conductor back to your AC ground (directly into an electrical panel, structural steel, etc.). You would then bond anything in the rack that requires bonding to the RBBs. That would complete the chain of bonds to ground. This method is actually the correct method for commercial installs. It is costly due to the copper bus bars and hardware/tools. The second option, if the first one is not feasible, would be to use a copper bond wire from one patch panel to the other (making use of, or replacing the existing bond wires). You would then use a copper bond conductor that is attached to either of the patch panels that are daisy-chained together and then bond that conductor to ground. You could use our truePLUG adapter for that purpose. The last option is to use two separate truePLUG bond extension adapters and make use of two grounded AC outlets. That would mean both patch panels are bonded to ground but not in a daisy-chain fashion. Of the three, in a residential setting, the last one is the most effective, least costly, and least problematic.

@aliazimi91 7 месяцев назад

@@trueCABLE thanks so much for the clarity! keep up the good work!

@BerserkeR_031 4 месяца назад

What happens if a computer is plugged in to another outlet and group which is grounded, and you also ground your patch panel on the other side, will this cause issues? At that point, I believe you're grounded at both sides on different groups. Isn't that going to create a ground loop?

@trueCABLE 4 месяца назад

Hello! You won't risk a ground loop unless those bond points end up at two disparate AC grounds. The potential for problems does not result from the number of bonds to the SAME ground, but when multiple different ground systems are involved. A good example would be bonding an Ethernet cable shield to ground at both ends in TWO different structures where they have their own AC ground systems.

@BerserkeR_031 4 месяца назад

@@trueCABLE Thank you.

@trueCABLE 4 месяца назад

@@BerserkeR_031 You are welcome!

@DustinLRodriguez 9 месяцев назад

Is there any disadvantages using this method vs a bond bar?

@trueCABLE 9 месяцев назад

If you have access to a formal bonding and grounding infrastructure or need to bond multiple accessories in a rack to a rack bus bar, then that is the direction you should go. truePLUG is an accessory designed to bond a singular accessory to ground (shielded patch panel for example) and further in environments that lack any sort of bonding and grounding infrastructure (like TRs that have racks with RBBs, and one or more SBBs in the room).