So, one of my pipe dreams is going over to electric, and I'm interested in doing a plastic toolbox mobile build. Safety is of utmost concern to me, since I'm a n00b with electrical. So... how do I go about grounding inside a plastic toolbox-based enclosure?
I am getting a sub panel put in my garage and going to get a 4-prong 240v outlet installed for this purpose, on a GFCI'd 30A breaker. However, the idea of simply routing all connections thru to the ground on this doesn't pass my 'smell test'. Maybe its just paranoia, but I'd really like to have some sort of additional ground inside the enclosure itself.
I have looked thru the toolbox build posts on this (very awesome) forum and haven't found any explicit documentation of how folks ground out their plastic toolboxes; is it not necessary, or am I missing it? Any suggestions on how I could go about adding a ground post/plane w/o over-complicating my build? It's totally in the hypothetical phase right so nothing is out of the realm of possibilities!
Thx in advance.
I am getting a sub panel put in my garage and going to get a 4-prong 240v outlet installed for this purpose, on a GFCI'd 30A breaker. However, the idea of simply routing all connections thru to the ground on this doesn't pass my 'smell test'. Maybe its just paranoia, but I'd really like to have some sort of additional ground inside the enclosure itself.
I have looked thru the toolbox build posts on this (very awesome) forum and haven't found any explicit documentation of how folks ground out their plastic toolboxes; is it not necessary, or am I missing it? Any suggestions on how I could go about adding a ground post/plane w/o over-complicating my build? It's totally in the hypothetical phase right so nothing is out of the realm of possibilities!
Thx in advance.