Tagan 580w ground cable

owon · 10 Jul 2006 at 02:00

Were do I plug my tagan ground cable 2 had power supplies before but none never had a ground cable before

Yewen · 10 Jul 2006 at 02:01

Any screw that attaches to the case.

I usually screw mine to my CD drive, well I use one of the screws and put it there.

Fulcrum · 10 Jul 2006 at 02:37

I always thought a psu should have a ground cable since I dont see how they ensure it otherwise.
Any screw that also touches the case is fine. My drive screws dont because of measures I took against vibration so I'd use the motherboard to case screw probably

Yewen · 10 Jul 2006 at 03:33

Normal PSU's use the screws on the casing to the case, Tagans do not because of the way the threading is mounted. (I think)

hp7909 · 10 Jul 2006 at 08:18

Yewen said:
Any screw that attaches to the case.

I usually screw mine to my CD drive, well I use one of the screws and put it there.

Like this...

MadMatty · 10 Jul 2006 at 08:45

Been a very long while since I looked at the tagan manual, but I remember readig something along the lines of the Ground cable should be conected to a motherboard screw too help against voltage ripple, or something along those lines. My tagan is the very first revision with the ground connector more like a hook which is a pain to screw down , unlike the newer ones with a screwhole.

kidloco · 10 Jul 2006 at 08:47

never put my grounding cable anywhere, had it over a year now, never an issue

booyaka · 10 Jul 2006 at 10:24

screwed my tagan ground cable to the motherboard fixing/screw. Should always ground any electrical supply.

cobxx · 10 Jul 2006 at 10:47

kidloco said:
never put my grounding cable anywhere, had it over a year now, never an issue

Probably won't be an issue, but if anything happened, you wouldn't want your components to fry would you?!? It is quite unlikely though tbh but it could happen

Fulcrum · 11 Jul 2006 at 01:38

Without grounding the case could become live in the worst case, unlikely though

Yewen · 11 Jul 2006 at 02:13

I dont use the motherboard screw as its a pain having more cables running around, when the CDrom bays on most cases are just as good.

Gibbs · 11 Jul 2006 at 12:16

my motherboard is a minATX board so i use one of the free ATX holes for my ground cable. (just installed it last nite)