grounds for my control box

[planescott]

Hi, I am starting to hook all my electronics stuff up for my router. I am wanting to know do I use one ground location for everything or is their things
that need to be seperated.

Scott

[NC Cams]

You'd prefer to have everything at the same ground potential, thus, the optimum way to do it is to ground each item to a common ground point via a dedicated wire from each.

Do NOT daisy chain the items as you could develop a ground loop between two items - hence, ground would not be "ground".

Remember a steel cabinet is NOT necesarily a good ground due to conductivity issues.

Be prepared for a long discussion on this. I'd suggest a visit to BETATRONICS.COM as there are usually some good discussions on important electrical/electronic issue available there.