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Prevent Unplanned Downtime with Rittal’s Enclosure Climate Control Inspections
Avoid unexpected downtime in your facility due to extreme heat and overheating of critical control cabinet components.
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Rittal: How to dissipate heat from control cabinet enclosures
This post incorporates information on enclosure and process cooling from Rittal in a discussion on how to successfully dissipate heat from within industrial enclosures.
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Wire Size Selection Guide
This post discusses a number of factors to consider when reviewing the correct wire criteria for an industrial application.
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Pushbutton Guidelines
This reference provides an overview of color and labeling recommendations for pushbuttons used in technical applications such as industrial control panels.
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Glossary of Industry Standard Terms
A list of frequently used industry terms that pertain to electricity, automation, and related fields.
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Unit Definitions
The International System of Units has defined these seven basic units, as well as associated derived units, as are commonly found in technical applications, including electrical or control applications.
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ATEX Hazardous Rating Designations
An overview of the ATEX Directive 94/9/EC and how an individual product’s ATEX marking is determined based on type of equipment, level of protection, etc.
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Selecting between NEMA Enclosure Types and IEC Enclosure Classifications
An overview of various NEMA enclosure types and their use cases, as well as how NEMA enclosure types compare to IEC enlosure classification designations (IP ratings)
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How to calculate the heat load of an enclosure to choose the correct cooling system
In order to correctly determine the right enclosure for a particular application, the total heat load (in Btu per hour) to which the control panel will be subjected will need to be calculated.
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How to determine the short-circuit current rating (SCCR) of a control panel
The UL 508A standard follows the step-by-step process in the post when determining the short-circuit current rating (SCCR) of a control panel.
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