On 10/5/2015 1:16 AM, Mike Ryan wrote:
In my case I use inch wide tinned copper strap which cut to lengths as
required. I think you would find the flat strap superior to round wire
due to the additional surface area they provide. - Mike
Different problems may take different solutions.
To carry RF current between poorly bonded body parts we will need low
resistance, low inductance bonds, the proverbial short, wide strap or
large gauge wire, sometimes (not always) several of them, in different
places. To discharge static electricity, higher resistance, higher
inductance connections will do , even rather high value wire wound
resistors, and there is no need for copper when stainless steel will do,
if not over-flexed. There are other ways to deal with other sources of
static; I typically use a base-inductance or choke (even the L-match)
to eliminate the occasional tick, tick, tick, pockpockpock whirrrrrr
WHAM! of precipitation static discharging through gas-tube protectors.
Braid is notoriously prone to fail one strand at a time; my last
employer sold electronic systems into the aircraft market*, and that had
to be bonded to the airframe or other system ground (think composites)
with durable, short, heavy, low resistance strap or wire. The usual
requirement was no more than 2.5 milli-ohms from chassis to airframe, as
aircraft quite often carry thousands of Amperes of lightning current and
it does interconnected equipment some distance apart no good at all to
have more voltage appearing on power and signal conductors from some
distance away than internal protectors can deal with.
*Interesting info:
http://www.interferencetechnology.com/new-emc-requirements-for-commercial-avionics-rtcado-160f/
;
http://incompliancemag.com/article/design-practices-for-military-emc-and-environmental-compliance/;
www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a509335.pdf
Cortland Richmond
KA5S
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