Properly grounding your equipment—whether for a small telecommunications room or a large data center—is critical for protecting your investment and maintaining operational efficiency. Without grounding, your sensitive equipment is vulnerable to damage from power surges, lightning strikes, and electrostatic discharge, which can cause costly downtime and equipment failure.
If you think lightning strikes are rare, consider this: power surges and electrostatic discharge are far more common and just as damaging.
Eye-Opening Facts About Grounding and Equipment Protection
- Nearly one-third of data center equipment damage results from electrostatic discharge.
- Lightning strikes deliver millions of volts, yet it only takes a few tens of volts to damage sensitive electronic equipment.
- Other sources of voltage surges include switching devices like air conditioners and monitors on and off.
- Millions of dollars are lost annually due to improperly grounded equipment, both in direct damage and downtime costs.
- Data center downtime leads to significant financial losses, far beyond the cost of replacing equipment.
Grounding Solutions to Protect Your Investment
At Chatsworth Products (CPI), we understand the critical importance of grounding and bonding. To protect your network, we offer a range of products designed to safeguard your equipment while maintaining efficiency and reliability.
Here are some key products from CPI’s Grounding and Bonding family:
Connects equipment chassis to the grounding busbar along racks with a 24” long jumper, ideal for server and chassis switches with auxiliary ground connections.
Secures ground wires to metal pipes of various sizes, supporting up to two wires parallel or perpendicular to the pipe.
Designed for raised access floor pedestals, securing ground wires to create a signal reference grid under the floor using #6 AWG or 2/0 round wire.
Connects copper or tinned copper conductors to busbars, CPI racks, cabinets, or cable runways, featuring slotted and 90º options for universal hole patterns.
Available in 100’ lengths, these wires bond CPI racks, cabinets, and cable runways to the Telecommunications Grounding Busbars.
A tinned copper strip that attaches to rack mounting rails to provide direct ground contact for rack-mount equipment or convenient bonding.
Why Choose CPI for Your Grounding Needs?
CPI offers innovative grounding and bonding solutions to protect your network while complementing our full range of data center infrastructure products. Whether you’re safeguarding a small telecom room or a large-scale data center, our solutions help ensure proper grounding, equipment safety, and regulatory compliance.
to protect your equipment and network investment today.
