"rbowman" wrote in message
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We mostly used McKinstry freestanding enclosures. Some were smaller, but
many were 6x6x2 feet, big enough to live in. Some of the real estate was
taken up with motor starters. A Square D starter for a 25 HP motor isn't
too petit. Throw in a control transformer for the 120 VAC control
circuitry and that ate a little more room. The external runs were all
Liquatite. Thermoset molding shops can be dirty, and if you blow a line on
a 30 gpm pump, they can get oily pretty fast.

I miss it too. The whole US machine tool industry more or less went tits
up in the '70s. I traded relay logic for microprocessor logic but it just
ain't the same.


Small stuff. Go to a size 5 starter. Throw in an inverter for a 250 HP
motor, or to take it to the next level, a starter for a motor that runs on
4100 volts. don't recall the HP or current.

I had to deal with that and PLC cabinets that had lots of wires in them.
Think of walking up to a wall that is about 5 feet tall of terminal strips
and 20 feet long.