UPDATED: Before & After IV – Control Cabinet Assemblies

These bespoke cabinets are ordered to the required specification and delivered with holes cut out where required in accordance with Chris’ Electrical Diagrams.

2M Legend Plates are ordered to size and mounted to the cabinet door fronts. AJ then proceeded to connect the necessary buttons and connection points to the cabinet doors, you can see how those buttons look on the back of one of the door fronts in the third photo below.

Finally, the doors are set aside for assembly later on.

Fatima continues with the cabinet doors, here shown beginning the wiring process in accordance with electrical diagrams and with cables marked and crimped by yours truly.

Each of these panels will have 4 connector points, in line with electrical diagrammes.

From the inside of the panel, you can follow the order of connector points in line with the diagramme:

• 5-Pin Mains Infeed Connector
• 54-Pin Circular Connector
• 14-Pin Circular Connector
• 3 x 25-Pin Rectangular Connector

Here’s the outside view for reference. Find out more about connector construction here. Check back for more live updates soon!

Here’s how the panel side-views are looking now, with all sockets mounted.

Initially when it came to testing were unable to get power to the screens. Sometimes it’s the simplest things, and this case was no different because when a Senior Software Engineer decided to check the wiring of the screens themselves he realised that a simple wiring error between screens and push buttons required correcting.

Once this was done, we were able to proceed with running the required checks on the control cabinets.

When the cabinets are fully assembled, it comes time to fully test the functionality.

By way of example, here we set the temperature sensor at 30 degrees to see if it actions the fan as expected.

Once all incorporated component functionality was tested, in turn every control cabinet was connected to a 5 axis demo rig to see if the control system was behaving as it was designed to behave.

A detailed and bespoke Hardware Checklist was run through with results chronicled to show that all cabinets were functioning as desired with no snags.