Urgent - Door Mounted Control Plug

[burntcoil]

Greetings,

I want to wire some of the breaker signals (breaker status, position, trip and close circuit)to a door mounted plug, so one side of the plug will be wired to the signal and the other side will go to the interface. Can anyone suggest me any suitable and decent looking control plug (something similar to breaker secondary disconnect but suitable for door mounting).

Thanks

 

[Marmite]

http://www.bulgin.co.uk/Products/GenPurpose_Connectors/GenPurpose_Connectors.html

Regards
Marmite

 

[ScottyUK]

Harting's HAN series of connectors are excellent and robust. All sorts of permutations are available, for example chassis or panel mount socket with cable mounted plug.

 

[burntcoil]

How about using Banana sockets on the breaker control compartment. Is it safe or it voilates any standard?

 

[ScottyUK]

In my opinion that leaves far too much chance of plugging the wrong plug into the wrong socket. One plug, with polarisation to prevent it being mis-inserted, is almost certainly a better solution.

 

[catserveng]

I would second the HAN type connectors, I have used them many times for applications similar to what the OP is trying to do. Automation Direct also has a similar line that interchanges with the HAN connectors pretty well, as I find sometimes the USA distributors don't seem to keep much on hand. A note of caution though, in directly comparing the HAN and AutomationDirect connectors, while they both work fine if you want something REALLY robust, spend the extra money and go with the HAN connectors.

Here is the link to the Automation Direct page,

http://www.automationdirect.com/adc...ti-Wire_Connectors,_Heavy-Duty_(ZP-MC_Series)

Here is the link for the HAN Harting connectors,

http://www.harting.com/en/service/c...ectivity-networks/industrial-connectors-hanR/

Hope that helps, MikeL.