ee NE PD AT Bes ee ee ee How to size cable tray BUY DIR) 800.236.7000 RUUD uCable tray ‘Wit reference to Roger Sastate stile"Engineoring Cae Tray Sye tem, Part 1 (May 1880) at Part 2 (une 1880), what NEC: Arle 38 find Sandstedt do not mention ie iimum spacing necomary between ‘ate tray (horny ad vet | atv containing erent eel ables {o reduce electromagnetic interfer ‘Minimum spacing mes that di tanee between the top sane trey 0 {he bottom of the tay ave i or betwecn the sider of acon tray ovals are elsif Ine five owe levels fF nparaon of cables ints | SCRVEL TA—thermacoples and ncouple extensor it, LEVEL 24~Digial signa Computer grounding ani “black rage" have gne hand in hand ong {tu My tpectly ie woable ‘Shooting at eantomer nites whe thelr Computer ejtame donot pera to their expectation level With refer ‘neo to the editorial of March 109, ‘maintain that 8 PDU dacs need to Comply with Se, 260.28 it mecte Uherequlrement of Sec 250544) The Statement, "power systems. within Tsted eleirnic eomputerdata po ‘ring equipment shall not be fon ‘Sievod weparatly derived for the Purpose of mpplying Sec. 280.58)" Iakes sent for atrasorme nse | scompstr: However, fi iva treme former inside a PDU eon! tt tribute power to sowed pies of ‘ulpment, with connertions to the butsde world tug thee SER Ines Teal ave network (LAN connections, the argue als pat. have never Been inition vwhore“erenting” grind apart guideline offered tm? alae + [2 Te [a [we tte tetete (continuoue)sigoals The recommended minim sac: {WEOVDC or fone than 60 mA. Sngn inches between rane of eles © LEVEL 9A—igh level signals in trays rend ix shown in Tab DDC or AC tes, 18 to I80V, or lene 1 Table 2 owe recommended spac than 10VA, Inga ince) where one wel feble SEVEI, 4—Power-AC and DC eam in trays and another level at to S0OV or BO0A, Dut less than 100 cle ern neondut, iva ‘Charlee DiMare ‘* LEVEL 6—Power—All power Senior Bastricl Eineer ables greater than BOOW or greater ‘Stowe Bnginering Corp. than BOA or greater than IODKVA ‘Quin, MA That old black magic ‘fom the bing’ ejtam turned aot eve hat See 280-76 haa op te tolbe a god thing: I Une compar itn Che co. The Aen behind thle fauipment hae trouble with the | wh seperate the ompoce emda batlang’ grounding aye, then find ystems om the ling eon ya ‘ut whats wrong With the building's tem t prevent corruption of the ‘system and Bt ‘computers reference snd protect ‘As Taras Sec. 25021 sjectonal fhm noise Lt examine ope ten at current ta concerned, {lave this to sa tine the “local authority having jurisdic." Soppose a few clouds at 21,000 tion” Once, I was involved with Rubbed ogetner and eewtad eeagh sstomerengincor who wea very up. ofa charge ta fois the area and a fet ever round cursent All of his reultant lighting strike take place ‘heories ssid that ground shouldbe Will my 4in pla of plastic sop? ero itho load is balanced and resi. NO! "We had T50mA on ground. Aer [examined a 60 He, one could ‘emo! numbers ofthe dla probably make the statement that Dyess equiment involved, and tops nag, bat withthe pam, ee Aiding expected Teakageeae- tly end round lies ung inter: ents fram cach one, teame maglly tal the ond, ing parle fo, cose to 70m He did mat have any interrupting the continuity of ‘wouble at this ite with the computer conduit wil fil from the laternal ‘uipmen. He was tying to prevent lines aerying the nie. ne His attitude ean be faulted, ht '® Thave measured ever instal: ‘heory wo jan ot complete lations where the nie i Screed "Nov for the fi be Continue on page 4