Patchbay grounding....

[formerlyfzfile]

....or more specifically.

I have all of my out board gear in a rack and I just added a second patchbay. I want to access all gear and destinations through the bays.

If I ground the patchbay chassis together to a single ground, can I hook up the outboards to the bay un-grounded?

I have a big roll of 20-guage 4 conductor telephone wire unshielded) laying around and I have very limited space directly behind my rack.
I was thinking I could use the telephone wire to connect the outboards to the bay.

This would keep my cabling behind the rack very tidy as I would be able to get 4 connections per cable.

Is this a completely improper way to hook up my stuff??

-mike

 

[sk8ingsnowman]

Where would you be grounding the outboard gear?

If they share the same ground you may get a Ground Loop

I am not 100% understanding your set-up, but do a search on ground loops and see if its something you will have to worry about with your new setup.

?
peace