Grounding My F5

[dantwomey]

I'm in the middle of building my F5 and my thoughts are turning to grounding. For my stereo F5 I've built a separate power supply for each channel. This means that each channel has its own toroid, rectifiers, and capacitors. Can I ground each power supply to its own CL60 on the chassis or am I best to stick with the well known start grounding principle and bring both power supplies to a common CL60? The reason I'm asking is separate CL60's would probably lead to a neater layout.

Regards,
Dan 🙂

 

[6L6]

The point of the CL-60 at chassis earth is to break ground loops.

Star ground the 2 PSU boards to one CL-60.

 

[vdi_nenna]

I built an F5 with CL-60s for each power supply. It's very quite.

 

[Russellc]

I built an F5 with CL-60s for each power supply. It's very quite.

I see the 4 (2 each) CL-60 with the transformer connections, but
What about the CL-60 that goes to ground, did you use one for each side, or just one for both grounds? If you used two, (One for each power supply) did they both go to the same ground point, or did each have their own ground point?

Russellc

 

[vdi_nenna]

I used two, one CL-60 for each power supply (PS) ground. My logic was that if they shared a single CL-60, both PS circuits would be connected to ground before the CL-60.

You are correct. The pics shows thermistors before the transformers. There are 6 CL-60 total in that F5.

Vince

 

[Russellc]

I used two, one CL-60 for each power supply (PS) ground. My logic was that if they shared a single CL-60, both PS circuits would be connected to ground before the CL-60.

You are correct. The pics shows thermistors before the transformers. There are 6 CL-60 total in that F5.

Vince

Are the two separate Cl-60s grounded to the same place on the chassis or do you have two separate places? Just wondering, I have exactly the same setup and am getting ready to install my power cord connectors and the grounding CL'-60s and was wondering how they should be installed.

Thanks for the help here, much appreciated.

Russellc

 

[Zen Mod]

safety gnd ( routed from mains connector ) , and all NTC's ( usually one or two ) connecting audio ground(s) and safety gnd , must be bolted/connected to one point of case

 

[dantwomey]

To illustrate my question. I have two complete power supplies. One for each channel in the same chassis. Do I use one TH1 for both supplies or do I use one TH1 for each supply and connect them to the same point?

An externally hosted image should be here but it was not working when we last tested it.

Regards,
Dan 😀

 

[vdi_nenna]

Both cl-60s to one point, bolted to the bare chassis, like ZM said. 🙂

 

[eyoung]

Look at F1 P/S has 2 CL60 to ground on the +/- 24v both channels to Ground...

Regards, El

 

[Russellc]

Look at F1 P/S has 2 CL60 to ground on the +/- 24v both channels to Ground...

Regards, El

That's not the CL-60 in question, the single one going to ground is. Question arose when suddenly members found two of the illustrations you speak of in their chassis. Now, the single CL-60 going to ground in the illustration of F-5's Power supply......now there are two, or not? Answer, two. Question 2, do they go to the same ground point? Answer, yes.

The two CL-60 going to the transformer primary leads are doubled in total number, as there are 2 power supplies, and two transformers. I dont think anone is questioning those two CL-60s.

Russellc