durallymax
Lifetime Supporting Member
Looking for some suggestions/critiques of this panel I recently built. I'm fairly green in this area, first big panel and only a couple small ones before.
I have a couple more to do and figured I'd see if there's any mistakes to correct or suggestions that will make things better before I start them.
A couple notes : I do not work in this field, I'm a farmer and these are for my own use. I don't have standards to meet but do want the panels to be safe and reliable. Budget is limited. A lot of the ideas came from reading through the panel pic thread on here.
I don't have auto desk just graphing paper and Tiny Cad. I labeled the wires with their destination on each end to make troubleshooting easier without schematics. I do make wiring diagrams and this labeling does make that more difficult. I'm undecided on if I like it or not. On the smaller panels I just gave every wire a number, same on each end.
This panel runs a number of random things. I put marshaling cabinets where needed for the load side of devices it controls. I do not know what I will all connect to it in the future so it was built with that in mind.
Thanks
Edit: Will re-upload pics as soon as membership for this site upgrades.
I have a couple more to do and figured I'd see if there's any mistakes to correct or suggestions that will make things better before I start them.
A couple notes : I do not work in this field, I'm a farmer and these are for my own use. I don't have standards to meet but do want the panels to be safe and reliable. Budget is limited. A lot of the ideas came from reading through the panel pic thread on here.
I don't have auto desk just graphing paper and Tiny Cad. I labeled the wires with their destination on each end to make troubleshooting easier without schematics. I do make wiring diagrams and this labeling does make that more difficult. I'm undecided on if I like it or not. On the smaller panels I just gave every wire a number, same on each end.
This panel runs a number of random things. I put marshaling cabinets where needed for the load side of devices it controls. I do not know what I will all connect to it in the future so it was built with that in mind.
Thanks
Edit: Will re-upload pics as soon as membership for this site upgrades.
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