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Rockwell Automation 7000A PowerFlex Medium Voltage Drive (A-Frame) - Classic Control User Manual

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Drive Installation 2-53

7000 “A” Frame

7000A-UM150F-EN-P – June 2013


Note that if a drive isolation transformer is used, the WYE secondary
neutral point should not be grounded.


Each AC motor frame must be bonded to grounded building steel
within 6 m (20 feet) of its location and tied to the drive's ground
bus via ground wires within the power cables and/or conduit. The
conduit or cable armor should be bonded to ground at both ends.


Grounding Guidelines and Practices for Drive Signal and Safety

Grounds

When interface cables carrying signals where the frequency does not
exceed 1 MHz are attached for communications with the drive, the
following general guidelines should be followed:

• It is good practice for the mesh of a screen to be grounded

around its whole circumference, rather than forming a pigtail that
is grounded at one point.

• Coaxial cables with a single conductor surrounded by a mesh

screen should have the screen grounded at both ends.

• Where a multi-layer screened cable is used (that is, a cable with

both a mesh screen and a metal sheath or some form of foil), there
are two alternative methods:

– The mesh screen may be grounded at both ends to the metal

sheath. The metal sheath or foil (known as the drain) should,
unless otherwise specified, be grounded at one end only,
again, as specified above, at the receiver end or the end which
is physically closest to the main equipment ground bus.

or

– The metal sheath or foil may be left insulated from ground

and the other conductors and the mesh cable screen
grounded at one end only as stated above

Grounding Requirements and Grounding Specification for

Customers and Power Integrators

An external ground must be attached to the main ground bus. The
grounding means must comply with applicable local codes and
standards. As general guidelines, for information only, the ground
path must be of sufficiently low impedance and capacity that:

• the rise in potential of the drive ground point when subjected to a

current of twice the rating of the supply should be no higher than
4 volts over ground potential.

• the current flowing into a ground fault will be of sufficient

magnitude to cause the protection to operate.