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B Equipment Grounding B-1

B.1 General Grounding Specifications B-1

B.2 Grounding Specifications for the Building B-2
B.3 Grounding Specifications for the Equipment B-2
B.4 Grounding Specifications for the Power Supply B-3
B.5 Grounding Specifications for Signal Cables B-3
B.6 Cabling Specifications for Grounding Cables B-4

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Tables

Table B-1 General grounding specifications ................................................................................................ B-1

Table B-2 Grounding specifications for the building..................................................................................... B-2
Table B-3 Grounding specifications for the equipment ................................................................................ B-2
Table B-4 Grounding specifications for the power supply ............................................................................ B-3
Table B-5 Grounding specifications for signal cables .................................................................................. B-3
Table B-6 Cabling specifications for grounding cable .................................................................................. B-4

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B Equipment Grounding

Suitable grounding helps to avoid accidental personal injury and guarantee the safe
operation of the equipment.
This chapter introduces the following grounding specifications:
„ General grounding specifications
„ Grounding specifications for the building
„ Grounding specifications for the equipment
„ Grounding specifications for the power supply
„ Grounding specifications for signal cables
„ Cabling specifications for grounding cables

B.1 General Grounding Specifications

Table B-1 General grounding specifications
No. Description
1 The working ground and the protection ground (PGND), including shielding
ground and lightning ground, are bonded to the same grounding electrode.

2 Cabling racks, equipment frames and enclosures, metallic air ducts and doors
and windows in the equipment room are grounded.

3 All the metallic equipment units that are normally neutral are grounded.

4 The grounding cables contact firmly with the grounding bar in the equipment.

5 Do not connect the equipment to an already grounded device grounding

purpose.

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B.2 Grounding Specifications for the Building

Table B-2 Grounding specifications for the building
No. Description
1 The earth resistance is required to be less than 1 Ω in an integrated
telecommunications building, or less than 5 Ω in common offices or stations, or
less than 10 Ω in areas with high soil resistivity.

B.3 Grounding Specifications for the Equipment

Table B-3 Grounding specifications for the equipment
No. Description
1 All the network telecommunications equipments including mobile base station,
transmission equipment, switching equipment and office power are grounded.

2 All the PGNDs in a station are finally bonded to a general grounding bar. The
PGNDs in an equipment room are bonded to the general grounding bar in the
same room.

3 The PGND is connected to the nearby grounding bar (user-supplied).

Copper-core conducting cable with green-yellow plastic insulation cover must
be used. The cross-sectional area of the conductive cable is required to be 25
mm2 or above.

4 The grounding terminals at the front door, back door and side panels of the
cabinet are separately connected to the grounding bolt of the cabinet.

The cross-sectional area of the cable is required to be 1.6 mm2.

5 The metallic units of the equipment cabinet have good conductance. No

nonconductive paint exists at the metal-to-metal contact.

6 The cabinets contact the adjacent cabinets in a row through the fixing bolts and
washers on the cabinet top.

A surface of 30 x 50 mm2 around the bolt holes is not covered with paint. Take
rust-proof and rot-proof measures. The surface of the washer and nut is plated
with nickel to ensure good electrical conductance.

7 When connecting the cabinets of the same type, use cables not longer than
300 mm to connect the grounding busbars of adjacent cabinets, if these
busbars exist.

The cross-sectional area of the cables is required to be 6 mm2. Two ends of the
cable are secured to the terminals of the grounding bar.

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B.4 Grounding Specifications for the Power Supply

Table B-4 Grounding specifications for the power supply
No. Description
1 TN-S AC power supply system is adopted in the equipment room.

2 A C-level AC lightning protector with rated current not less than 20 KA is

installed at the AC power cable inlet of the equipment room.

3 PGNDs of the office power and telecommunications equipments finally connect

to the same grounding electrode.

Grounds of telecommunications equipments and office power in an equipment

room are bonded to the grounding bar in the same equipment room.
4 Lightning-proof circuit is added to AC power interface.

5 The positive electrode of 48 V DC power or the negative electrode of 24 V DC

power is grounded at the DC power outlet.

6 The working ground and PGND of DC power supply system and the PGND of
switching equipment finally connect to the same grounding electrode.

Grounds of telecommunications equipments and office power in an equipment

room are bonded to the grounding bar in the same equipment room.
7 Surge-proof circuit is added to DC power interface.

B.5 Grounding Specifications for Signal Cables

Table B-5 Grounding specifications for signal cables
No. Description
1 If the digital trunk line of the transmission equipment connects to the wireless
base station, no matter directly or indirectly, install E1 lightning protector in the
corresponding interface of the transmission equipment.

2 The outside cables have metallic protection cover and two ends of the cover
must be well grounded. Connect the end in the equipment room to the
grounding bar in the same room.

Install lightning protector in the interface connecting the coming cable. The
grounding cable of the lightning protector should be as short as possible.
3 Both the outer conductor of coaxial cable and the metal shield of shielded cable
contact firmly with the metal surface of the target equipment.

4 Idle wire pair in the signal cable is grounded in the equipment room.

5 Pass the TDA cable through the main distribution frame (MDF) that has a
security unit before the cable goes out the office.

Connect metal shield of the cable with the PGND of the MDF. The MDF and
the cabinet must share the same grounding electrode.

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6 Signal cables in the telecommunications office or mobile base station area

cannot be routed overhead.

B.6 Cabling Specifications for Grounding Cables

Table B-6 Cabling specifications for grounding cable
No. Description
1 Grounding cables are routed separately with signal cables.

2 Grounding cables cannot be routed into the equipment room through overhead
cable troughs. They can be routed under ground or inside the room.

3 Do not install connectors, splices or breakers to grounding cables.

4 The PGND cable should use copper-core conducting cable with green-yellow
plastic insulation cover.

5 The neutral wire of the AC power cable cannot connect with the PGNDs of the
telecommunications equipments in the equipment room.

6 Make the PGND cable as short as possible (no more than 30 m). If the PGND
cable is longer than 30 M, adjust the position of the grounding bar to reduce the
required cable length.

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