Grounded my dust collection system (pics)

[LiamN (Liam Newcombe)]

There’s at least two reasons you might do this.

1. To avoid a ground loop which could cause additional interference and comms problems between your Shapeoko controller and PC

2. For safety, should you touch something AC live and the dust collection at the same time, if there is a large resistance to ground you are (slightly) less likely to be injured

Grounding your Shapeoko

Why would you want to ground your Shapeoko? This isn’t something everybody should do, but if you have either of the following issues, you should consider it; Dust & chip accumulation (on rails and V wheels causing movement problems) Random disconnects (when cutting plastics or when extraction is on) There’s nothing ‘wrong’ with the way the Shapeoko is delivered and there’s no safety issue WRT grounding on the machines (if you add a VFD spindle that must be properly grounded but that’s not for…