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Grounding Question

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twistedhero

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I working on building a case out of wood and had some thoughts about grounding the hardware... Since the parts ( hd, cdrom, power suppy, mb ) are not connected to a conducting material (normaly the case) should I hook everything together with a ground wire?

Those of you who have Plexi-glass cases is everything grounded?
 
I have two PSUs with cases that aren't grounded to the black wires but only to earth ground. No problem when used in a metal case, but with a plastic or wood case you'd better run ground wires between the PSU case and the drives and mobo
and maybe even the rear brackets of the plug-in cards. Because if a PSU like this somehow leaked current from the high voltage side to the low voltage side, such as because of a bad capacitor, the equipment could get high voltage riding on it that would normally earth grounded through the metal case. Those two PSUs of mine aren't cheap junk but were intentionally designed with separated grounds, and I noticed that even Antec SmartPowers have a single soldered jumper wire connecting their case and output grounds.
 
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