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Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Insulating D-shell from chassis?

on 2003-11-16 20:14:57 UTC
Hi Randy;


The last thing that you want to do is to isolate a chassis mounted
component from ground. My question is: do you know for sure that you
have a ground loop?

Dave



zephyrus@... wrote:

>I'm building chassis for my Xylotex controllers, and I need to insulate the
>female D connector from the chassis to prevent a ground loop in the signal
>path.
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>Does anyone have a good/elegant way to do this? My choices seem to be to:
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>1. Inlet a piece of non-conductive material in the front panel and mount
>the D connector to this.
>
>2. Use an all-plastic D connector (without metal grommets at the mounting
>holes) and non-metallic mounting hardware.
>
>3. Mount the D connector as usual, and cut a piece out of the parallel
>cable shield adjacent to the driver box end. Since the cable is
>pre-terminated, I can't get a piece of heatshrink on it and would need to
>use electrical tape.
>
>All 3 ideas sound kludgy to me. Any suggestions/experience?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Randy
>
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Discussion Thread

Wilson Logan 2003-11-13 11:08:58 UTC OT: New version of PG Offline available 2.0.150 zephyrus@r... 2003-11-16 14:49:29 UTC Insulating D-shell from chassis? David A. Frantz 2003-11-16 20:14:57 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Insulating D-shell from chassis? washcomp 2003-11-16 22:03:31 UTC Re: Insulating D-shell from chassis? zephyrus@r... 2003-11-17 08:54:19 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Insulating D-shell from chassis? Alan Marconett KM6VV 2003-11-17 09:29:13 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Insulating D-shell from chassis? David A. Frantz 2003-11-17 10:08:34 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Insulating D-shell from chassis? ballendo 2003-11-17 14:58:08 UTC Re: Insulating D-shell from chassis? zephyrus@r... 2003-11-18 01:12:35 UTC Re: Insulating D-shell from chassis? David A. Frantz 2003-11-18 05:35:06 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Insulating D-shell from chassis? mayfieldtm 2003-11-18 08:04:09 UTC Re: Insulating D-shell from chassis? Alan Marconett KM6VV 2003-11-18 09:33:35 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Insulating D-shell from chassis? zephyrus@r... 2003-11-18 10:29:29 UTC Re: Insulating D-shell from chassis? zephyrus@r... 2003-11-18 10:41:20 UTC Re: Insulating D-shell from chassis? David A. Frantz 2003-11-18 13:50:25 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Insulating D-shell from chassis? David A. Frantz 2003-11-18 14:03:43 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Insulating D-shell from chassis? zephyrus@r... 2003-11-18 14:07:25 UTC Re: Insulating D-shell from chassis? JanRwl@A... 2003-11-18 14:15:14 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Insulating D-shell from chassis? Moore 2003-11-18 14:33:40 UTC Re: Insulating D-shell from chassis? zephyrus@r... 2003-11-18 20:30:39 UTC More on Re: Insulating D-shell from chassis? Jon Elson 2003-11-18 22:29:37 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] More on Re: Insulating D-shell from chassis? zephyrus@r... 2003-11-19 08:08:04 UTC Re: More on Re: Insulating D-shell from chassis? Jon Elson 2003-11-19 10:39:59 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: More on Re: Insulating D-shell from chassis? Moore 2003-11-19 14:18:42 UTC More on Re: Insulating D-shell from chassis? Xylotex board caudlet 2003-11-19 16:33:47 UTC More on Re: Insulating D-shell from chassis? Xylotex board Moore 2003-11-19 18:07:40 UTC More on Re: Insulating D-shell from chassis? Xylotex board Carl Mikkelsen 2003-11-19 18:08:51 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: More on Re: Insulating D-shell from chassis? Don Rogers 2003-11-20 20:07:08 UTC Re:More on Re: Insulating D-shell from chassis? zephyrus@r... 2003-11-20 22:02:58 UTC Re: Re: More on Re: Insulating D-shell from chassis? ballendo 2003-11-20 22:53:40 UTC Re:More on Re: Insulating D-shell from chassis? Don Rogers 2003-11-21 22:33:45 UTC Re:More on Re: Insulating D-shell from chassis? ballendo 2003-11-22 06:45:18 UTC Re:More on Re: Insulating D-shell from chassis? James Cullins 2003-11-22 09:03:44 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re:More on Re: Insulating D-shell from chassis? David A. Frantz 2003-11-22 09:32:35 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re:More on Re: Insulating D-shell from chassis?