Fun At Work

[tardis454]

We got a contract to do all of the controls for the largest galvanizing line in the world located in southern Ohio.
Here's one of the cabinets I got to wire. It was fun...







After this we get to do the controls for the 2nd largest galv line in the world, aka the 1st co's competition.

[chevybuytroy]

That looks so perfect. Clean and everything in its place

[SuperBuickGuy]

how do you put "wire" and "fun" in the same sentence? :smh:

[tardis454]

That looks so perfect. Clean and everything in its place

Thank you sir.. That's how we roll, my boss is a stickler for clean wiring..

how do you put "wire" and "fun" in the same sentence? :smh:

There's no sarcasm font so I have to be sardonic.

[Loren]

My weekend: Wiring from free '95 OBD I LT1 motor, free as in $1500 was paid for the car in order to get it's $1500 transmission. Shop manual info also for free. All the fun: Priceless.

But, this is all 12v dc which is like plumbing, and there ain't no production line depending on my having gotten connections right. Jus' sayin'

[squirrel]

the wires are all the same color!

Nice work

[chevybuytroy]

My weekend: Wiring from free '95 OBD I LT1 motor, free as in $1500 was paid for the car in order to get it's $1500 transmission. Shop manual info also for free. All the fun: Priceless.

But, this is all 12v dc which is like plumbing, and there ain't no production line depending on my having gotten connections right. Jus' sayin'

Is a manual car? I payed around that for an Iroc with an lt1 a long time ago. I remember being gentle with the original wiring on it

[SuperBuickGuy]

the wires are all the same color!

Nice work

job security

[DanStokes]

Pretty work tardis! Back in my working days I'd occasionally do a nice job on something and it REALLY feels good. Sadly, I was usually doing one-off projects for a short-term test and there wasn't time to refine it to the standards I would have liked to maintain. Lots of tiewraps and pop rivets.

Dan

[Monster]

the wires are all the same color!

That's the second thing I noticed, after the clean installation ... who in their right mind would design anything with all wiring the same color ?

[silver_bullet]

the wires are all the same color!

Nice work

Normal in industrial control cabinets.... the nice part is that usually all of the wiring is labeled with heat shrink brady labels and the neatness makes it easier to service... the exception to the same color routine is usually control wiring is one color, and the line power to and from contactors is a different color or colors... I too agree with the nice work comment! it has been too often in my career that I have opened a cabinet to get overcome by the "ball of spaghetti" left by those who do not take the time to reinstall barriers, trough covers and cable ties... spent months at my last job trying to fix those death traps...

[Deaf Bob]

That's the second thing I noticed, after the clean installation ... who in their right mind would design anything with all wiring the same color ?

Confident man?

[tardis454]

Normal in industrial control cabinets.... the nice part is that usually all of the wiring is labeled with heat shrink brady labels and the neatness makes it easier to service... the exception to the same color routine is usually control wiring is one color, and the line power to and from contactors is a different color or colors... I too agree with the nice work comment! it has been too often in my career that I have opened a cabinet to get overcome by the "ball of spaghetti" left by those who do not take the time to reinstall barriers, trough covers and cable ties... spent months at my last job trying to fix those death traps...

This..

Blue is 24V+ for the control circuit aka control power input/output for the push buttons & selector switches.
Every wire has a Panduit shrink label with a wire number, and yes it's much easier to service when the wiring is tidy.

The colors we use go something like this:

Black: 3 Phase Power 208/230/240/277/480V
White: 120V Common Neutral, 277/480V 3 Phase w/Neutral Circuit
Red: 120V+
Yellow: 24V+ and/or 120V+ (Denotes incoming power cannot be turned off in/on this cabinet/panel)
Green: Ground PE
Blue: 24V+ Control and/or Power
Grey: 24V- Common Neutral

I've been in mills where the wiring is a dangerous rats nest waiting to fail at any second. (Some) Maintenance guys are lazy, under the gun, or both to keep things going and will cut corners like crazy. Like silver_bullet said, covers are off 99% off the time and the wireways have HUGE bundles of wiring spaghetti puking out all over the place inside of the cabinet.

On a side note, Loren showed the auto wiring he's working on. I'm a pretty good wireman, but I will have questions in the future on how to properly wire the new fusebox in the dune buggy. I'll eventually start a post here to get fellow bangshifters input on what to put on what circuit, how many amps the fuse needs to be for each circuit etc.

[Monster]

I will have questions in the future on how to properly wire the new fusebox in the dune buggy. I'll eventually start a post here to get fellow bangshifters input on what to put on what circuit, how many amps the fuse needs to be for each circuit etc.

Excellent.. a new project !