Grounding A Media Gateway Powered By The Same Electrical Panel - Nortel 1000E Installation And Configuration Manual

Installing system grounds
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Grounding a Media Gateway powered by the
same electrical panel
553-3041-210 Standard 4.00
• the Signaling Server power cord is plugged into a wall AC outlet. The
Signaling Server is grounded outside of the rack using the safety
grounding conductor in the power cord. This method ensures proper
grounding only of the Signaling Server itself. It does not provide
grounding protection for other rack-mounted pieces of equipment.
Therefore, ensure that other devices in the rack are properly grounded as
required.
Follow Procedure 8 to ground one or more Media Gateway powered by the
same electrical panel.
Procedure 8
Grounding Media Gateways powered by the same electrical panel
1 Disconnect the AC power cord from the power outlet.
2 Install a #6 AWG ground wire from the ground lug, as shown in Figure 27
on page 97, at the back of the Media Gateway to the ground bar.
3 Place a DO NOT DISCONNECT tag on the ground wire.
September 2007