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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.
Did you look at my link above for the 200A and 630 A sockets ? Or the powerock connectors , available various versions but the 400A ones are very common for this sort of thing..
If you must use 125A plugs and sockets, then have 2 circuits and do not join them to a loop.
I still cannot see the advantage in having a plug in thing, when the sockets to plug it into will have to be installed specially for the occasion, and you have no control of the ADS provision (fuses, breakers RCDs or whatever,) that protect them, so you will need to provide your own . Plug in things at these current levels need as much effort as hard wired tails, and the cables to and from the plugs and sockets are going to be impossible to move if they are more than a few metres long.
Did you look at my link above for the 200A and 630 A sockets ? Or the powerock connectors , available various versions but the 400A ones are very common for this sort of thing..
If you must use 125A plugs and sockets, then have 2 circuits and do not join them to a loop.
I still cannot see the advantage in having a plug in thing, when the sockets to plug it into will have to be installed specially for the occasion, and you have no control of the ADS provision (fuses, breakers RCDs or whatever,) that protect them, so you will need to provide your own . Plug in things at these current levels need as much effort as hard wired tails, and the cables to and from the plugs and sockets are going to be impossible to move if they are more than a few metres long.
