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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.
The bottom part of the system are plugs and all of them are plugged into the main power supply leaving not plug bear.Thats the reason we are looking at using a change over switch to eliminate live potential on the other side. Anyway the other big concern is the size of cabling required against the existing cable tray layout that exists has there are fundamental space issues. So we was looking at using smaller armoured cables coming off a big distribution point to suffice each power cluster individually instead of using the loop system that we have at present. Jimmy2Rivers
The bottom part of the system are plugs and all of them are plugged into the main power supply leaving not plug bear.Thats the reason we are looking at using a change over switch to eliminate live potential on the other side. Anyway the other big concern is the size of cabling required against the existing cable tray layout that exists has there are fundamental space issues. So we was looking at using smaller armoured cables coming off a big distribution point to suffice each power cluster individually instead of using the loop system that we have at present. Jimmy2Rivers
