Grounding The Chassis - Avaya 8800 Installation Manual

8010co chassis installation
4. Insert fully into slot. Use the keyed attachments to lower the bracket and secure into

Grounding the chassis

Avaya recommends that you ground the 8010co chassis before you connect power cables or
network cables to the switch.
Prerequisites
• To attach a ground to one of the chassis grounding studs, you need the following:
- one single-hole cable lug that fits over one of the grounding studs
- a nut and a locking washer for the grounding stud
- a 6-AWG grounding wire long enough to connect to the ground point
- 7/16-in. hex wrench to fasten the hardware
Procedure steps
1. Locate the shelf grounding point on the rack. This grounding point can be a
2. Attach the lug ends of the chassis ground cables to the rack grounding strip.
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See Figure 32: Installing cable management brackets
place.
grounding strip at the back base, top, or side of the rack.
Figure 33: Rack grounding strip example
grounding strip. Your rack grounding strip can look different than the one shown in
this example.
Use a 7/16-in. hex wrench to fasten the hardware in the correct order. For more
information about attaching the lug ends, see
example on page 63.
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on page 61.
on page 63 shows an example of a rack
Figure 33: Rack grounding strip
November 2012