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Offline PowerNetTopic starter

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Cat6a Shielded Patch Panel - grounding
« on: May 31, 2017, 02:09:56 am »
Hello,

Have anyone used the keystone jacks which are for the shielded Cat6a cables with a the ground wire ? If so with the patch panels, do you just connect the earth wire to the frame of the Comms cabinet ? if so I assume the cabinet is earth via the power cord right which in term its earthed.

any ideas ?
 

Offline Monkeh

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Re: Cat6a Shielded Patch Panel - grounding
« Reply #1 on: May 31, 2017, 03:13:26 am »
Silly question: Why are you installing shielded cables?
 

Offline PowerNetTopic starter

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Re: Cat6a Shielded Patch Panel - grounding
« Reply #2 on: May 31, 2017, 03:31:06 am »
trying to minimise noise in the cables as I will be terminating them with HDMI ports and just overall trying to create higher bandwidth.

I bought these:
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Re: Cat6a Shielded Patch Panel - grounding
« Reply #3 on: May 31, 2017, 02:54:15 pm »
Do remember that you need to ground both sides with that set-up. Otherwise: you've got a nice noise source :)
"to remain static is to lose ground"
 

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Re: Cat6a Shielded Patch Panel - grounding
« Reply #4 on: May 31, 2017, 09:09:57 pm »
One side ground only. Otherwise your create a ground lopp
 

Offline Kjelt

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Re: Cat6a Shielded Patch Panel - grounding
« Reply #5 on: May 31, 2017, 09:22:36 pm »
One side ground only. Otherwise your create a ground lopp
You already have a ground loop by connecting the cable, because the equipment needs to be grounded.
Best way is to assure all equipment with these jacks have a very low impedance to the same ground reference. One reason I dont use them, for my 10Gb/s connections I use optical cabling.
 
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