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fuse panel board labels - how do you solve the labeling problem

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Hi, all!


This is my first post in this community. And I apologize if I involuntarily break his rules. 


I am a developer of an online service that makes it easy to create stickers for electrical panels. Examples of the results of the service are posted below


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I have a question for the community, but how do you now solve the problem of marking your electrical panels? Perhaps you use word and excel, or write with a simple marker directly on the shield panel?


I do not know if it is possible to place a link to the service, so if you are interested, write to me and I will give a link. Thanks to all.
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    Firstly, forget the supposedly 'universal language' pictograms. They are confusing and meaningless on so many levels, just like IKEA furniture instructions.

    Every installation is different and no one size fits all. For example,the testing which precedes a consumer unit change reveals that not all sockets labelled "Downstairs sockets" are actually that. It could be that a supply has been taken  from the circuit marked as "Down stairs sockets" to supply a shed or outbuilding. Similarly, a circuit labelled "Upstairs Lights" may not include the fact that some outside lights and attic/loft lights have also been supplied form the same circuit..

    When you get to the industrial side, and 3 phase distribution board may say be labelled "Cincinnati Milling m/c" Or "Morando Vertical Boring m/c".


    Simply, there si no one size fits all in this scenario and the best which can be achieved is to print one's own labels onsite using a cheap label printer.

    As for GK's "Standards" No one takes any notice of those in any case. Sometimes a Sharpie pen is all you really need!
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    Firstly, forget the supposedly 'universal language' pictograms. They are confusing and meaningless on so many levels, just like IKEA furniture instructions.

    Every installation is different and no one size fits all. For example,the testing which precedes a consumer unit change reveals that not all sockets labelled "Downstairs sockets" are actually that. It could be that a supply has been taken  from the circuit marked as "Down stairs sockets" to supply a shed or outbuilding. Similarly, a circuit labelled "Upstairs Lights" may not include the fact that some outside lights and attic/loft lights have also been supplied form the same circuit..

    When you get to the industrial side, and 3 phase distribution board may say be labelled "Cincinnati Milling m/c" Or "Morando Vertical Boring m/c".


    Simply, there si no one size fits all in this scenario and the best which can be achieved is to print one's own labels onsite using a cheap label printer.

    As for GK's "Standards" No one takes any notice of those in any case. Sometimes a Sharpie pen is all you really need!
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