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

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.
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>2. Use an all-plastic D connector (without metal grommets at the mounting
>holes) and non-metallic mounting hardware.
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>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.
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>All 3 ideas sound kludgy to me. Any suggestions/experience?
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>Thanks,
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>Randy
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