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New cabinet ideas

Postby TacomaJoe on Wed Aug 14, 2013 8:17 am

We just recieved the first of five cabinets for a couple projects that just started. They are TS2 Type 2.
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New for us is a print drawer shelf to set our laptops on. Comes in handy with us filling the shelf with equipment. In the old days we could just shove the stuff to one side to make room for the laptop.
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We spec out an LED strip at the top and one under the lower shelf. The lower one is cleverly placed below the drawer.
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Our detection options are to get away from loops using video, puck, microwave so we are adding a panel with breakers to supply power. The empty area is for future BNC filters if we go video.
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New idea from the manufacturer is a panel for the SDLC cables. Our early versions just had all the wire tie together on a terminal strip. This is much neater. Five them are secured by screws, the fourth one down has clips for a test connection to a fram grabber.
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These are being built by Western Systems here in the great Northwest. Two of them will be upgrading EF20 intersections and the other three will be new signals.
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Re: New cabinet ideas

Postby Crunge98 on Wed Aug 14, 2013 8:33 am

That cabinet looks so clean compared to what is out there now. I like the idea for the laptop shelf :thumbsup:
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Re: New cabinet ideas

Postby coyttl on Wed Aug 14, 2013 8:42 am

Wow Joe, that's far too clean. :)

I've seen ones with the drawer/table for laptops before, but I *really am* surprised that it took this LONG for a SDLC 'patch panel'. When I first started looking into SDLC (two, three years now?) I excpected to find a patch panel like that, and was dumbfounded none had been made. :scratch:

That's a really nice cabinet. :drool: Is it specifically wired for any brand controller? (Don't expect so, being SDLC, but you never know..)
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Re: New cabinet ideas

Postby EPAC-EPIC-MARC on Wed Aug 14, 2013 10:37 am

That is a really nicely laid out cabinet! :drool: :drool: :drool: I too love the SDLC interconnect panel. Is so much neater to work with than the long terminal strip I have in my cabinet to tie in all the wiring for the communication.

I'm expecting a Siemens M50 going in that. Thats the controllers I've seen in Western Systems cabinets in the past...but any TS2 Type 2 unit can go in there and work.
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Re: New cabinet ideas

Postby TacomaJoe on Wed Aug 14, 2013 12:14 pm

Is it specifically wired for any brand controller?

The "D" harness is wired for the Siemens M50. We could build a short pig-tail adaptor to convert a TMP-390 or LMD 9200 if we needed to.
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Re: New cabinet ideas

Postby 2070 on Wed Aug 14, 2013 3:53 pm

The "Shelf" may be a drawer also...... :crazy:

To keep all the paperwork for the intersection in???
Well what do you know. If I put my name here, I do not have to sign it everytime.

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Re: New cabinet ideas

Postby notMUTCDcompliant on Wed Aug 14, 2013 4:47 pm

Wow, big upgrade for an ef20!
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Re: New cabinet ideas

Postby SignalLab on Fri Aug 16, 2013 5:15 am

notMUTCDcompliant wrote:Wow, big upgrade for an ef20!

its only better when the detection operates! ;) :P
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Re: New cabinet ideas

Postby traffictechgreg on Mon Aug 19, 2013 11:31 am

I like the laptop/plans storage drawer. It comes in handy even if your writing something down or using a mouse for your video.
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Re: New cabinet ideas

Postby EagleSignalFan on Sat Aug 24, 2013 7:03 pm

I like the SDLC patch panel; it is MUCH neater than the terminal strip, and you won't have unused cables hanging around the cabinet. I have a mini three-harness terminal strip in my TS-2 Type 2 cabinet that I built myself, now this has me wanting to build a patch panel! :crazy:
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