hillbilly1
Senior Member
- Location
- North Georgia mountains
- Occupation
- Owner/electrical contractor
It is. I will probably do fuse blocks, and a distribution block.Other than a rats nest it may not be as bad as it looks on 1st glance. I believe the 3 larger starters are a wye-delta arrangement for the largest motor and the would be on that one breaker.
Take me with you.I’ve got to go to Ohio and disconnect all of it . . .
1st glance? I can't believe you saw the cabinet!Other than a rats nest it may not be as bad as it looks on 1st glance. I believe the 3 larger starters are a wye-delta arrangement for the largest motor and the would be on that one breaker.
It’s about 45 minutes from my favorite Ohio state park, Hocking Hills.Take me with you.
We stay in cabins at Lake Hope State Park Wednesday through Sunday the first weekend of June when my motorcycle forum group ST-Owners has one of their events.It’s about 45 minutes from my favorite Ohio state park, Hocking Hills.
How many motors get fired up at once?This is going to be fun, customer bought a sawmill, and whoever wired it is running all of the motors off one breaker. Sizes from 5 hp all the way up to 150, I think he said!
Yeah, wouldn’t be hard to interlock everything. Once I get up there to disconnect everything, I will have a better plan of attack.Recommend that you get a shoe horn out ( after neatening up rats nest of wires ) to squeeze in fuse blocks to feed each motor starter. Use the short fuse blocks that are rated for use up to 600 volts.If they are worried about if one motor trips out and other motors continue to run you can wire in all of the overload contacts in series.
Looks similar to what ended up being my first PLC project at a small cattle feedlot.This is going to be fun, customer bought a sawmill, and whoever wired it is running all of the motors off one breaker. Sizes from 5 hp all the way up to 150, I think he said!
I had a project many years ago that I wanted to go that route, but plc’s were still pricey then. It was for a Home Depot Expo store. They had an actual shower display with working shower heads and body sprays in an enclosed room with full height glass viewing windows. The engineers were concerned with too many showers being activated, and overflowing the drain system. I designed and built a controller that would not allow more than one shower display at a time to be activated. It would also limit the amount of time the heads ran. I wish I still had pictures of that. All mechanical relay logic.Looks similar to what ended up being my first PLC project at a small cattle feedlot.
Enjoy.