{"id":14008,"date":"2016-05-26T21:31:38","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T21:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iacdrive.com\/2016\/05\/26\/how-to-design-an-panel-required-for-plc-mcc-drive\/"},"modified":"2016-05-26T21:31:38","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T21:31:38","slug":"how-to-design-an-panel-required-for-plc-mcc-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iacdrive.com\/?p=14008","title":{"rendered":"How to design an Panel required for PLC \/ MCC \/ Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1. The regular industrial standard size panel available with most of the panel fabricator&#8217;s. <br \/>\n2. Type of protection (used to say as IP). <br \/>\n3. Spacing depends upon the Power handled by the conductors inside Panel and the ventilation system. <br \/>\n4. Cable Entry \/ Bus bar entry may depend on the application and site condition. it may be at rear\/bottom or at the top. <br \/>\n5. When comes to Drive, if the site condition is too hot then an industrial ac is required usually attached at the side of the panel. <br \/>\n6. Drive to drive required spacing (Check <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iacdrive.com\">the manual of the drive<\/a>}, since the power switching activity take place inside the drive.<br \/>\n7. Provide required space for the transformers and AC-choke since they create magnetic flux in ac circuits.<br \/>\n8. Don&#8217;t mix the Control cable, Power cable, Signal cable and Communication cable together in the cable tray&#8230; Otherwise you will be wired&#8230; <br \/>\n9. Keep the control on mcb\/mccb\/mpcb in handy location. So that its easier for operator to control it frequently and not disturbing other circuits.. <br \/>\n10. Plc will be acquiring the top position in the panel since there is nothing to do with it once installed. Just we will be monitoring the status. <br \/>\n11. Don&#8217;t place the Plc nearby to the incoming or outgoing heavy power terminals.. <br \/>\n12. Mcc panel are easy thing to do, but do the exact calculation for the ACB selection in the incomer side. Since each feeder will be designed with tolerance level.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n\tThere being a lot more than 12 guidelines to follow. What<br \/>\nabout back-up power for the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iacdrive.com\">PLC<\/a>? What about internal heat flow considerations<br \/>\n(not just does it need an AC or not)? How much space between terminal blocks<br \/>\nand wireway? What about separate AC and instrument grounds? What about wireway<br \/>\nfill? What about wire labels? What about TSP shields? What about surge<br \/>\nprotection? In my experience, there are plenty of people that can design a<br \/>\npanel but if they haven&#8217;t gone to the field with it then they haven&#8217;t been able<br \/>\nto learn from their design mistakes.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n\tThe best thing you can do is start your design but you<br \/>\nreally need to be guided by an experienced designer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. The regular industrial standard size panel available with most of the panel fabricator&#8217;s. <br \/>\n2. Type of protection (used to say as IP). <br \/>\n3. Spacing depends upon the Power handled by the conductors inside Panel and the ventilation system. <br \/>\n4. Cable Entry \/ Bus bar entry may depend on the application and site condition. it may be at rear\/bottom or at the top. <br \/>\n5. When comes to Drive, if the site condition is too hot then an industrial ac is required usually attached at the side of the panel. <br \/>\n6. Drive to drive required spacing (Check <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iacdrive.com\">the manual of the drive<\/a>}, since the power switching activity take place inside the drive.<br \/>\n7. Provide required space for the transformers and AC-choke since they create magnetic flux in ac circuits.<br \/>\n8. Don&#8217;t mix the Control cable, Power cable, Signal cable and Communication cable together in the cable tray&#8230; Otherwise you will be wired&#8230; <br \/>\n9. Keep the control on mcb\/mccb\/mpcb in handy location. So that its easier for operator to control it frequently and not disturbing other circuits.. <br \/>\n10. Plc will be acquiring the top position in the panel since there is nothing to do with it once installed. Just we will be monitoring the status. <br \/>\n11. Don&#8217;t place the Plc nearby to the incoming or outgoing heavy power terminals.. <br \/>\n12. Mcc panel are easy thing to do, but do the exact calculation for the ACB selection in the incomer side. Since each feeder will be designed with tolerance level.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n\tThere being a lot more than 12 guidelines to follow. What<br \/>\nabout back-up power for the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iacdrive.com\">PLC<\/a>? What about internal heat flow considerations<br \/>\n(not just does it need an AC or not)? How much space between terminal blocks<br \/>\nand wireway? What about separate AC and instrument grounds? What about wireway<br \/>\nfill? What about wire labels? What about TSP shields? What about surge<br \/>\nprotection? In my experience, there are plenty of people that can design a<br \/>\npanel but if they haven&#8217;t gone to the field with it then they haven&#8217;t been able<br \/>\nto learn from their design mistakes.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n\tThe best thing you can do is start your design but you<br \/>\nreally need to be guided by an experienced designer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iacdrive_blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iacdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iacdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iacdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iacdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/iacdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iacdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iacdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iacdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}