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Options:
Rack frame finish – corrosion resistant primer
with air dry epoxy
Options listed for individual components can
be incorporated in complete switch racks
Construction:
General:
• All construction to be in accordance
with current National Electrical Code®
(NEC), National Electrical Manufacturers’
Association (NEMA), state and local
standards as designated by the
purchaser.
• All hazardous area enclosures for motor
starters, combination motor starters,
circuit breakers, motor circuit protectors,
instrument enclosures, panelboards,
main bus, fittings, receptacles, and
lighting fixtures shall be made and
supplied by the manufacturer.
• All explosion-proof threaded enclosures
for combination starters, circuit breakers,
motor circuit protectors, and starters
Applications: • Maintenance time and costs are reduced
shall be UL classified.
Free-Standing Switch Rack Assemblies Are by having controls grouped. Work is
• All other standard hazardous area
Used: performed in one location instead of
enclosures shall be UL listed or UL
• To provide a complete motor control moving from one control to another in
classified.
center in one integrated package various locations
• Manufacturer shall retain permanent
• Outdoors and indoors • Major components are standard EBMX,
records of all motor control racks and
• In damp, wet or corrosive locations such EBM , SN4, SN4X, SN4XEBPB, SN7,
shall have the capability of duplicating,
as sewage treatment plants, lumber EXCP, D2PB, EXD, D2D, EPL, and D2L
or replacing, any fully-assembled rack or
mills, marine installations, and food enclosures featuring ready access to
rack component.
preparation areas starters and breakers for inspection and
Manufacturer to assume responsibility for
• In areas made hazardous due to the maintenance
construction, purchase/manufacturer of
presence of flammable vapors or gases, • Custom built racks to meet your exact
components, complete circuit continuity
such as petroleum refineries, chemical requirements are an Spike Electric
testing, and testing of mechanical functions
and petrochemical plants, gas gathering Controls specialty. Complete quotations
of components.
plants, pipeline compressor stations, will be supplied for any job, large or
and drilling rigs, both onshore and small.
offshore
• In areas where hazardous dusts are Standard Finishes:
present, such as coal handling facilities, Rack frame – hot dip galvanized steel,
grain processing and handling plants, stainless steel, or natural aluminum
and certain food process industries Components – see sections A & C for
finishes
Features:
• Complete factory assembled and wired Standard Materials:
switch racks Rack frames – channel members, bolted and
• Pre-drilled bus boxes allow for quick and welded
easy changing or adding of components
• Complete assembly covered under one
Certifications and Compliances:
order, eliminating engineering costs,
NEC:
additional costs of placing separate
Class I, Divisions 1 & 2, Groups C, D (Group
orders with several vendors for various
B optional)
components, and assembly and
Class II, Division 1, Groups E, F, G Class II,
scheduling problems at job site
Division 2, Groups F, G Class III
• Wiring is simple. After switch rack is
NEMA: 3, 4X (optional), 7B (optional) CD,
in place, feeders are connected to the
9EFG, 12
main bus and connections made from
starters motors. No other field wiring is
necessary
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Rack Frame Design Structure • Conduit entrances shall have integral

• Switch rack, either single or double face wire pulling bushings and conduit stops.
as required, shall be rigid, free-standing Grounding: These openings shall be arranged two
structures. Racks shall be factory A pressure-type grounding lug with at the top and two at the bottom and
welded, assembled and fabricated appropriate wire capacity will be provided at shall be sized for power and control
from standard rolled structural steel or each end of frame. requirements.
aluminum shapes. Finish:
• Vertical risers will be 6” I-beam and Rack frame shall be hot-dip galvanized after General
horizontal members shall be 6-inch fabrication or natural aluminum. • Position, and shall be trip-free of the
channel. circuit breaker itself. An attached
• Mounting feet shall be 6-inch channel. Bus Duct in Lieu of Canopy indicating plate shall give clear, visual
Width of such feet for single-sided racks (Optional): confirmation of the circuit breaker
shall be 41 inches. Single - or double - pitched canopy shall status.
• End mounting feet will be braced have minimum 15-degree pitch with a
(welded) to the upright with 6” T minimum 7’6” ground clearance, and Lighting Panelboards
member. 2-foot overhang. Roofing material shall be Class I, Division 1:
• Mounting feet shall be anchored at corrugated aluminum. Canopy roof trusses, Class 1, Division 1 & 2
the job site with 1-inch diameter bolts. cross channels, roof material, and mounting Panel boards shall be Eaton’s
Anchor bolts and mounting pads will be hardware shall be shipped unassembled for Crouse-Hinds type, factory and
the responsibility of the user. quick assembly at the job site. All holes in Non-factory sealed SN7 series.
• Maximum horizontal spacing between structure shall be provided except for roof
mounting legs shall not exceed 6 feet. mounting holes which will be drilled in the
(Specific dimensions to be determined
NEMA 4X Option:
field.
by the manufacturer.)
• All bus boxes, control enclosures and
lighting panelboards will be made of
• Racks longer than 20 feet will be Motor Control Components: KRYDON® material to meet NEMA 4X
supplied as bolt-together sections. All Circuit Breakers & Disconnects: requirements.
(Specific section dimensions to be • Handles shall be pad lockable in either
determined by the manufacturer.) the “OFF” or “ON” position, and shall
be trip-free of the circuit breaker itself. Conduit Boxes, Outlet Boxes &
Fittings: An attached indicating plate shall give Device Boxes:
All fittings shall be made and provided by clear, visual confirmation of the circuit Conduit boxes, outlet boxes, and device
the manufacturer. Seals and unions will be breaker status. boxes shall be Eaton’s Crouse-Hinds
provided for each incoming and outgoing • Motor starter overload reset operating Conduit® fittings.
conduit as required. All interconnections mechanisms shall be field adjustable. Seals:
between components shall be done by the • All Nema 7 enclosures shall be cast Seals will be standard Eaton’s Crouse- Hinds
manufacturer with galvanized rigid conduit, of a corrosion-resistant copper-free type Conduit EYS. (Eaton’s Crouse-Hinds
and conduit fittings as required to meet the aluminum alloy (less than 0.4% copper) Conduit EYD drains to be specified as
hazardous classification. Interconnecting and shall be of a three section design. required.)
conduits to be provided with conduit seals Multiple-start straight buttress threads Unions:
as required. All incoming and outgoing between the covers and the body shall Unions will be Eaton’s Crouse-Hinds UNY.
rack conduit entrances shall include conduit ensure quick access to the interior in Breathers and Drains:
seals as required by the hazardous location less than two full turns of the covers. Breathers and drains shall be Eaton’s Crouse-
specified. Such seals will be provided by the A system of stops shall prevent over Hinds ECD.
manufacturer and will not be filled where tightening and thread seizing. A system
field wiring is to be introduced. of locks shall prevent covers from Wiring:
loosening due to external vibration. • Standard wire shall be copper only, 600
• Female threads on the top cover with volt, 75°C minimum rating, UL listed.
male threads on the bottom cover • No power wire less than 12AWG shall
shall ensure inherent water and rain be used.
shedding. • Control wire shall be 14AWG minimum,
• The external circuit breaker operating 7 strands, THW minimum.
handle affixed to a stainless steel • Wiring shall be sized in accordance with
shaft, shall be pad lockable in either the NEC requirements.
the “ON” or “OFF” position. Circuit
breaker mechanisms shall be trip-free
Drawings:
of the circuit breaker itself to allow the
Standard drawings supplied for customer
circuit breaker to open under overload
approval shall include complete rack wiring
conditions even if it is locked in the
diagram, component data, nominal weight
“ON” position.
of the rack, and overall rack dimensions.
• The mounting bracket shall provide a
three-point suspension system for quick
installation and adjustment.
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