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Earthing Bonding DataCabinets

This technical document provides important information on earthing and bonding requirements for communication cabinets, frames, and racks according to various industry standards. Key requirements include: - Cabinets must have their own individual earth connection sized appropriately based on any active equipment installed. - Bayed cabinets and earthed patch panels must each have their own earth connection and not be daisy chained. - Earth connections should be connected directly back to the Customer Main Earth Terminal or nearby approved earth. An earth busbar may be used if no direct connection is available. - Cables must be kept short and straight to avoid high impedance and not coiled or doubled back on themselves.

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Earthing Bonding DataCabinets

This technical document provides important information on earthing and bonding requirements for communication cabinets, frames, and racks according to various industry standards. Key requirements include: - Cabinets must have their own individual earth connection sized appropriately based on any active equipment installed. - Bayed cabinets and earthed patch panels must each have their own earth connection and not be daisy chained. - Earth connections should be connected directly back to the Customer Main Earth Terminal or nearby approved earth. An earth busbar may be used if no direct connection is available. - Cables must be kept short and straight to avoid high impedance and not coiled or doubled back on themselves.

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Earthing & Bonding Technical

Document
Revision 1/0705/LF

Background
The aim of this technical document is to provide important and legal information on
the earthing and bonding of communication cabinets, frames and racks as used in
both the data and telecommunications market place.

This information is drawn from current BS 7671 (IEE 16th Edition Electrical
Regulations), BS 6701: 2004, BS EN 501310 & BS EN 50174.

Terminology
AWG American Wide Gauge
FE Functional Earth
PE Protective Earth
CMET Customer Main Earth Terminal
Cabinets Communication Cabinets, Frames & Racks

Scope
1. An approved earth connection is not supplied by a three pin mains (240v)
plug.

2. An approved earth connection is not supplied by the use of a steel wired


armoured cable.

3. For small mounted wall cabinets the FE/PE connection must be at least
twice the size of the phase conductor. If the size of the phase conductor is
1.5mm, then the FE/PE connection shall as a minimum requirement is 4mm
in size. This size is based on no active equipment being installed within the
cabinet.
4. For larger floor mounted cabinets, the minimum size of the FE/PE conductor
must be no smaller than 16mm in size. This size is based on no active
equipment being installed within the cabinet.

5. Each cabinet shall have its own individual FE/PE conductor.

6. Bayed cabinets shall each have their own individual FE/PE conductor.

7. Earthed patch panels must not be daisy chained together.

8. STP patch panels shall be connected to the cabinet using separate 1.5mm
FE/PE cables.

9. The FE/PE conductor shall be in the first instance connected directly back to
the CMET or to a nearby approved earth.

10. In the case of a communications room, not having a direct connection back to
the CMET, an earth busbar shall be installed. The busbar must be
manufactured as a pre-drilled copper unit and at least 6mm thick, 100mm
wide and 200mm in length. It is essential that the busbar be suitable for
immediate use, although 30% expansion should be allowed for future system
growth.

11. The location of the busbar shall be such that it easily accessible.

12. FE/PE cables must be kept short and as straight as possible to avoid
creating high impedance.

13. FE/PE cables shall not be coiled or double back on themselves as this would
create a parallel path.

14. FE/PE cables can be connected back to the CMET or approved earth along
with all other services.
15. In the cases of all communication cabinets where active equipment is to be
installed, the overall watts/power/amp output level must be determined to
ensure that the correct size FE/PE cable is installed prior to the system going
live for the client to use. The system may be tested without the correct
FE/PE cable being in place.

16. The American National Standards Institute and the UK Electrical


Contractors Association are now detailing the following sizes for FE/PE
cables, although these figures should only be applied to large data
communication rooms with large amounts of active equipment.

Distance from CMET (metres) FE/PE cable Size (AWG) FE/PE cable Size (mm)
4 6 16mm +
6 4 21mm +
8 3 26mm +
10 2 33mm +
13 1 53mm +
16 1/0 42mm +
20 2/0 74mm +
>20 3/0 86mm +

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