Grounding and Shielding for Systems without Equipotential Bonding

Principle

NOTE: Basically, grounding and shielding is to be carried out the same as for systems with equipotential bonding.

If this is not possible because of system or construction specific reasons however, distributed ground with a capacitive coupling of high frequency interference signals. Procedures

Overview

This representation shows distributed grounding with capacitive coupling

Distributed Grounding with Capacitive Coupling

This table shows you the steps in setting up distributed grounding with capacitive coupling.

Step	Action	Comments
1	Galvanically ground the shielding (only) to the end of the bus cable and with as much surface area as possible to the central cabinet
2	Run the bus cable from there to the last bus node, without any other ground connections
3	Shielding for all bus nodes should be ground "capacitive only" This is done with e.g. the GND 001 terminal connection.	This is achieve at least one discharge route for high frequency interference Note: A transient current cannot flow without a galvanic connection
4	Refer to the Connection Example and the Making Shielding Connections in the instructions for the corresponding device.