Grounding Prerequisites and Descriptions

3.2 Outdoor Cabinet Site

This section describes an LPS for an outdoor cabinet site.

An example of the grounding system for an outdoor cabinet is shown in Figure

3 on page 9, and the components are listed in Table 8 on page 10.

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2

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4

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Figure 3 Example of Grounding of Outdoor Cabinet Site

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Table 8 Components in an Outdoor Cabinet Grounding System

Position Description
1 Lightning rod
2 Down conductor from rod to tower base
3 Feeder cables
4 Grounding points for feeder cables
5 Tower base bonding bar
6 Connections for tower legs to ground electrodes
7 Down conductor from tower legs to ground electrodes
8 External grounding bar for outdoor cabinet

The external grounding bar, an SUB, for outdoor cabinet should be located
closely to the outdoor cabinet, and be connected to the tower base grounding
bar, and to the structure’s MET. All the bonding cables should follow the
dimensions in Table 1 on page 4, and be as short as possible.

The following should be connected to the SUB, as shown in Figure 4 on page

11:

• The outdoor cabinet

• All feeder cables

• The steel conduit for the power supply cable or the screen of the power
supply cable

• The steel conduit for the transmission cable or the screen of the
transmission cable

• The grounding point of the installation frame or base frame for the cabinet,
or battery cabinet, if used

• When a Battery Base Unit (BBU) is used, separate grounding conductors

should be connected, one for the RBS cabinet and one for the BBU

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Figure 4 External Grounding Bar (SUB)

The positions in the figure are specified in Table 9 on page 11.

Table 9 Components in a Grounding System

Position Description
1 Battery Base Unit (BBU)
2 Transmission
3 Power supply (if steel conduit or cable screen is used)
4 Tower bottom bar and building LPS/MET
5 Feeders
6 RBS cabinet
7 RBS cabinet grounding point
8 BBU cabinet grounding point

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