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Any Pointers on electrical layout for a fabrication rig
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Trying to find the best approach to this problem has the cable trays between the sockets of the units will not cater for large cables above 25mm2 so was looking at having to change the design from a looping cabling system between Main sockets on each floor there are 4 floors in total on the rig to each Power Cluster.So that each Power Cluster have there own Power Supply cable going to them individually so we can look at cutting down the size of cabling to fit the cable trays.But to do this i'm after some electrical layout ideas from the Forum.The starting point of the electrical layout are 3 125A Sockets (ie.400v,230v & 115v) which have an interconnection at two ends (ie Left Side and Right Side) so there is a need for a change-over switch.Then from there on looking at adding a large distribution box for the individual cables to connect to the various sockets of the Power Cluster.
First thought was simply to use larger cable trays (or ladder) - but presumably there's a reason to rule that out?
Having more smaller cables may or may not help - with more cables/circuits you'll hit grouping factors (especially if closely packed) - which will likely demand an increase in cable size - which might undo exactly what you're trying to achieve.
Bus-bar trunking might be another option - but not enough detail to know if that's sensible or not.
I probably haven't pictured this correctly - I'm struggling to see what a change-over switch is needed for....
First thought was simply to use larger cable trays (or ladder) - but presumably there's a reason to rule that out?
Having more smaller cables may or may not help - with more cables/circuits you'll hit grouping factors (especially if closely packed) - which will likely demand an increase in cable size - which might undo exactly what you're trying to achieve.
Bus-bar trunking might be another option - but not enough detail to know if that's sensible or not.
I probably haven't pictured this correctly - I'm struggling to see what a change-over switch is needed for....
