Call the companies and ask for a price list. Asking us is like asking your neighbor for pricing on a car... go to the car dealer and get the price direct from the horse's mouth.
The requirement is to prepare an estimate for MCC's based on international rates. We already have prices from the local company. For other items such as PLC's prices are available in sites such as RS Components. VFD's now becoming more common i thought there may be similar sites. I was wrong.
Get competitive bids and let the companies know it is a competitive bid situation. We got a price for one section of an MCC at about $20,000. We went for competitive bids and the $20,000 dropped to about $5000.
Bill
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Prices are always relevant to location and also what someone thinks they can get away with based on perceived competition, so anything we post in here is essentially meaningless since you did not state your location or brand preferences.
On top of that, MCCs are priced almost as commodities now. Most manufacturers consider them to be "loss leaders" meaning that they sell them at levels where net prices of individual devices in an MCC is a lot less than what you would pay for them as stand-alone devices. They do that knowing that if you have their brand of MCC installed, chances are that they will be able to get additional business from you later at more realistic prices. The same holds true for VFDs unfortunately; the price you pay in an MCC has little to do with what they are worth, it is all about what the market will bear. So the only realistic way to check prices is to get competitive bids.
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