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ScottM
- Jan 1, 1970
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I'm using a small, switching power supply for a project. (It's a Kaga
sx15u-05s). When hooking it up, I found terminals for line and neutral,
but no place for a ground wire. It ran fine without one, but after a
bit I decided I'd be happier running grounded, and looked a bit more
carefully.
I found a floating ground (FG), but after reading up on this I decided
it probably wasn't meant to be hooked to the ground prong of a plug.
Then I found that the metal cage of the power supply was marked with a
ground symbol, and had a screw hole to attach a wire to. Ah ha, I
thought.
But being nervous, before I hooked up the ground wire, I checked the AC
voltage between the cage and the outlet's ground - and it came up about
40vac.
Is that normal? I'm not going to attach the outlet ground there until
someone tells me that it is.
sx15u-05s). When hooking it up, I found terminals for line and neutral,
but no place for a ground wire. It ran fine without one, but after a
bit I decided I'd be happier running grounded, and looked a bit more
carefully.
I found a floating ground (FG), but after reading up on this I decided
it probably wasn't meant to be hooked to the ground prong of a plug.
Then I found that the metal cage of the power supply was marked with a
ground symbol, and had a screw hole to attach a wire to. Ah ha, I
thought.
But being nervous, before I hooked up the ground wire, I checked the AC
voltage between the cage and the outlet's ground - and it came up about
40vac.
Is that normal? I'm not going to attach the outlet ground there until
someone tells me that it is.