How about Phoenix Contact's controllers? They seem to offer a wide range of modular I/O that just mounts on the side of whatever protocol controller you want to use. I looked at their prices and they seem lower than many others and I/O will fit in smaller spaces. Also they have many that are...
The product line we are trying out will accept ferrules or bare wire. And their holding strength was amazing. I inserted the ferrule in and try to pull it out, and I could not. Right now that is a big thing for us, but we need to see how vibration and use over time affects it.
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I am already using them on stranded wire, and they hold better than the screw terminals so far. I just got my new ferrel crimper set in yesterday :) (love my new toys) so I am hoping for a neat and better hold. With our equipment, we rather take the time to make it neater and hold together...
Thanks for the reply, generally we are sticking with phoenix is that they have the Class 1 div 2 and ATEX certifications for their equipment and their documentation has been excellent so far.
Almost all of our equipment is used in high vibration areas.
Another issue I like with their line is...
Hello all,
For a few years my company has been using the screwtype terminals on all the equipment we use. Our equipment gets shipped all over the world to different rigs and suffers lots of vibration enroute. Well we seem to always be having problems traced to wires that came loose.
I am...
Thanks for the response, but I have looked at purging, but that was shot down. The air on rigs tend to be very dirty and using it for instrumentation tends to be very messy, even with filters. Plus if air supply goes down, we will have to shut down, which is a big no-no.
My biggest confusion...
Been looking over regulations for a while now, and still new at trying to figure out what is needed. What I have is equipment that moved around the world to differnet oil/gas rigs for a few weeks/months at a time. Sometimes the equipments falls under Class 1 Div 2 zoning or sometimes needs to...