[SI-LIST] Re: Book - (Chassis - signal ground)
- From: Larry Miller <ldmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 01:38:55 -0700
This is impossible in any but the smallest systems.
We have quite a number of EMI experts on this reflector; I am surprised that
we are not hearing from them....
The problem is much more complex than the posts to this thread indicate.
Larry Miller
-----Original Message-----
From: Ashok Babu K [mailto:k.ashokbabu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 11:55 PM
To: si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [SI-LIST] Re: Book - (Chassis - signal ground)
I feel that if signal ground is to be connected to the chassis ground, then
that connection should be done at one single point only. If connections are
done at multiple points, that would eventually cause ground loops. Such
ground loops will cause EMI radiations, ground bounce etc.
More discussions are welcome.
Regards,
Ashok.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Hamilton" <paulh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 12:06 PM
Subject: [SI-LIST] Re: Book - (Chassis - signal ground)
>
> An issue to consider might be ESD (EMC electrostatic discharge)
> susceptibility. A complex system could present several current paths for
ESD
> strikes which may be difficult to manage. Isolating signal ground from
> chassis (and also ensuring that signal ground cannot take an ESD strike)
> would be one way to guard against ESD hassles. I've had grief with a
simple
> clam style enclosure about the size of a telephone - and chassis was
> isolated from signal ground except at one point.
>
> Paul Hamilton.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: si-list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:si-list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On
> Behalf Of Alex Horvath
> Sent: Friday, 22 June 2001 9:34
> To: si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [SI-LIST] Re: Book
>
>
> Someone recommended Henry Ott's book "noise reduction techniques in
> Electronic Systems" and I have this book and didn't find it very useful
for
> chassis grounding (it's very old). He actually recommends separating
chassis
> and digital ground. I think this is based on how systems in the past often
> had shielded cables going from one chassis to another. Often the ground
> potentials are different in those systems and large currents can flow in
the
> shield and thus in the chassis. The large currents in the chassis can
cause
> noise and or the ground reference to change if the digital ground is part
of
> the chassis. Most telecomm systems I work with today don't have any
shielded
> cables or for that matter any ground connections between chassis. Also,
all
> of the telecom companies I have worked at have tied digital ground to the
> chassis (also PC's are made this way).
>
> snip ..
>
>
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