1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

So that's definitely straight up wrong cause they forked up length and width... but to play devils advocate (as the guy that has to build it) alot of times engineers will design a backpan with zero consideration to the flow of actual wires or how much space they take up. 6 outta 10 of the panels I build that some engineer supplies a layout for can't actually be built to their layout so I split the difference and rearrange stuff so it flows easy and still kinda looks like their layout.



Your example though is definitely a fork up

 

Looks more like panel designer to me

 

Its nice to be the one engineering them and building them sometimes.

 

Yea... you're chunking the shit outta those front tires if you attempted any articulation lol

 

Is that what you're doing now? I get the luxury (on customs anyway) to design and build but 99% of my customers only care about a wiring diagram and never request a layout drawing. I've actually never had to do my own layout drawing lol

 

Yup. My boss is using my skills to redo a lot of our old panels and automate our machines more. And he likes buying old pos machines that need complete refurbs so that too falls to me.

I just do electrical drawings for what I build. No need to waste time on a layout.

 

Better then having to service this

 

Oh what have I been missing out on?!?!?

 

Hell yea! Thats awesome, I'd totally dig getting to do that.... other than having to reuse old crappy looking components

 

Thats EXACTLY what I was just thinking

 

@Blue92 @Silver02Taco @BartMaster1234

Here's one for ya.. local hospital needed a control panel for an industrial fan to replace one they had where the VFD took a shit. Since they were updating they wanted to combine another aux panel for a heater and sprayer motor that they had attached to their VFD panel. I got to design the layout and build it, and due to it being a rush my boss did the wiring diagram

Here's the original

And here's the fancy new one I built

 

Is what it is. But the next build is ground up new which means all new electronics too. Usually its the rebuilds that get boneyard parts since the goal is to turn and burn the machine as fast as possible to get it on the production line.

 

Wow you must work for a big company... all those tasks are performed by my supervisor here lol.. our "purchasing agent" is also the same gal that has to pull all the parts and bin em for us the builders. There are only 2 of us builders now and I'm the "custom job" guy so I work with my supervisor on doing the drawing and BOM creation

 

Thank you sir! It's not often im proud of myself but this is one of those times

Wow I feel like such a big shot now, we've got 20 people between 2 whole locations! The main branch that I'm at is the only one that does panel work though, the other store is just an electrical parts seller

 

You like the fuses right on the load side of those breakers that someone field installed. Probably because they couldn’t figure out which wire was tripping the breaker.

 

I missed that... I still can't get over the fact that most of the panels you show us use the absolute chinsiest terminal strip in the industry

 

You broke the rules. You removed the document. The police are en route. Goodbye.

 

Thats commercial HVAC for ya

 

If you get chance, look inside a traffic light control box. It's like they used a bowl of spaghetti as inspiration.