restorer-john
Grand Contributor
That is insufficient. Those PCB traces can burn out in the case of a short well before the breaker pops in your panel. As I showed in the original post, the accepted practice is with a green wire lug firmly tightened to the chassis.
Absolutely correct. Same requirement in this country as well to have a screw, lug, washer, lock washer and nut/s.
like this:
or this (with the paint scraped off underneath):
Relying on PCB traces and their mounting screws to chassis for an effective earth, would be unlikely to pass in any country I would think.
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