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Title: What's the name for a standalone ground post?
Post by: Deke609 on January 29, 2021, 07:21:43 PM

The kind you find on the back of some components for connecting chassis ground to something else (house ground or chassis ground of another component)?  I need search terms for Mouser/Digikey.

I know I could just use a screw, banana jack, etc. but I'd like one of the dedicated posts that you tighten either by finger (knurled) or screwdriver. Just to be fancy  :)

MTIA, Derek

Title: Re: What's the name for a standalone ground post?
Post by: mcandmar on January 30, 2021, 03:35:24 AM

Grounding post

Title: Re: What's the name for a standalone ground post?
Post by: Deke609 on January 30, 2021, 04:43:48 AM

Thanks, but I tried that and variants thereof with no luck. It turns up very large copper fixtures for creating a house ground on copper plumbing (which I may in fact buy to replace the cheap aluminum one in my house that is covered in galvanic corrosion - but that's a different problem).

So no luck, still stuck.

Title: Re: What's the name for a standalone ground post?
Post by: Paul Birkeland on January 30, 2021, 04:50:57 AM

It's an uninsulated binding post.

Title: Re: What's the name for a standalone ground post?
Post by: Deke609 on January 30, 2021, 05:12:24 AM

Success! Many thanks PB.

cheers, Derek

Title: Re: What's the name for a standalone ground post?
Post by: EricS on January 30, 2021, 03:50:34 PM

Here is the one I used on my turn table preamp.  This one is insulated, so you have greater flexibility in mounting it:

https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Johnson-Cinch-Connectivity-Solutions/111-0103-001/?qs=%2Fha2pyFaduiRA8ZBA48hsHC7q%252BO%2F4UTog3cAE8OvmZFlczSJ%252BtSrDA%3D%3D (https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Johnson-Cinch-Connectivity-Solutions/111-0103-001/?qs=%2Fha2pyFaduiRA8ZBA48hsHC7q%252BO%2F4UTog3cAE8OvmZFlczSJ%252BtSrDA%3D%3D)

Edit to add a somewhat fuzzy image

Title: Re: What's the name for a standalone ground post?
Post by: Deke609 on January 30, 2021, 05:36:19 PM

Thanks Eric. I went with a knurled version by the same company: http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Johnson-Cinch-Connectivity-Solutions/111-2223-001/?qs=ALatB1zlu3DK4UDroTueLA%3D%3D (http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Johnson-Cinch-Connectivity-Solutions/111-2223-001/?qs=ALatB1zlu3DK4UDroTueLA%3D%3D)

cheers, Derek