What's this wire for?

[HeathenUK]

A quick question. There is a cable coming out of the PSU, green and yellow with a forked metal piece on the end. What is this for? None of my guides mention it.

 

[The_Mage18]

Metal in the end of it????
Post a pic please

 

[HeathenUK]

I can't find a pic, but the metal bit looks like a really small tuning fork, maybe for grounding or something

 

[Steel Chicken]

it sounds like grounding...but i cant remember the last time I saw a PC power suply with a seperat grounding wire....

 

[HeathenUK]

So what do I do with it?

 

[Kil4Thril]

Before we say for sure, what is the brand/model of the PSU. I'd hate to arbitrarily say "ground" when it could be for some proprietary component elsewhere.

 

[Ice Czar]

but green is a common ground color
and having a metal end suggests that it is for electrical contact
you dont generally see them on supplies that have an unpainted metal enclosure,
since the enclosure itself will be the ground to the case,
but with painted supplies and cases its a good idea

odds on favorite its a ground, the other way to tell, find the other end

probability better than 90%

 

[gee]

yellow/green is IEC colors for a chassis ground wire.

I'm assuming this is some sort of acrylic cased supply which can't ground itself via its own case?

 

[Ice Czar]

<note to self; IEC yellow\green COM\GND>

thanx gee

 

[wwparrish]

Find a nice tight chassis screw somewhere, loosen it a bit, stick the forked thingy under the screw head and give it a good tighten.

If you really want to be slick, take out the screw and go to a hardware store or your junk drawer and find an nice sharp toothed washer and place it between the fork and the head of the screw.