<83d652574e7af740873674f9fc12dbaa675...@utexh1w2.gnnettest.com>, Chris
Maxwell <chris.maxw...@nettest.com> inimitably wrote:
>The GRP's connection to  Earth ground serves two purposes.  It is a low
>frequency ground connection to ensure that, over time, the GRP's DC
>potential won't change with respect to Earth ground.  The GRP's Earth ground
>connection also ensures that the GRP has a low frequency common with any
>Earth grounds that the device under test may have.  
>
>It is my belief that you don't need a dedicated ground rod for your ESD
>setup to satisfy this requirement.  

Is right what he say. Refer everything in the test set-up to the GRP and
just run a drain wire to the mains earth.
-- 
Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only. Phone +44 (0)1268 747839
Fax +44 (0)1268 777124. http://www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Why not call a vertically-
applied manulo-pedally-operated quasi-planar chernozem-penetrating and 
excavating implement a SPADE?

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