I have a really small
dimmer closet and I have to add another
dimmer pack. Right now I've got 3 sets of (single
phase) camlok
tails coming out from the breakers and I'm facing having to find space for 4 more
tails. I'd like to clean up the closet by making a panel, but as I'm only running 100A out to each
dimmer pack I was wondering if there was a single
plug I could use. I simply don't have enough space to put up a camlok panel. The dimmers only get removed for service. I've done a
bit of GoogleU looking for a product, but what I've found, $500-$1k for each
plug/
receptacle combo will never get past accounting.
Is there a 4 pole 100a or greater
plug anyone has used that I could put on the end of some 6/4 to
power that offers a panel mounted
receptacle that costs under $500/pair?
I played this game back in 1995 when taking 24 axis of AC servo automation from Canada to Offenbach / Frankfurt Germany and I ended up using Pass & Seymour Le Grande's (Sp?) pin and sleeve connectors as they were familiar and acceptable to TUV and the Germans. The company I was with had to bite the bullet on the price for three mating pairs and they were not what you'd
call "economy connectors". When I thought the 100 Amp five contacts were pricey, a year later our same shop ran into a situation where we needed the 125 Amp five contact connectors. Pass & Seymour Canada had them listed but needed far more time to deliver them and the 125 Amp versions made the 100 Amp connectors look like bargains. With apologies for being of less than zero help.
You might try Googling power con, in the back of my mind the company may have been Anderson or Adamson Power Con. They had a
line of modular connectors which were intended to be used within approved assemblies. I remember
Strand Century using them within
CD80 packs for shuffling the packs to accept single
phase or 3
phase power. This was true of both Canadian and American produced
CD80 packs. In Canada, Century
Strand, as the company was then known north of the
border, was using 20 and 30 Amp versions of the same modular connectors within various models of the Canadian produced CPD
dimmer cabinets in both the install and
portable versions.
Anderson Power-Con keeps sounding right in my mind and i'm recalling the product
line being extremely affordable, sturdily built, easily crimped and great value for the money.
Best of luck to you. I spent a month on tour in your city, had a great time in a theater in the heart of your downtown, an old place with two balconies and a 60', three section, wooden extension ladder for focusing their
FOH box booms. While I was there, your San Francisco Opera folks proved themselves GREAT hosts with a fabulous private tour for my wife and I at zero cost. This would've been in 1990, the year after a decent sized quake did a great deal of damage to your city.
EDIT: I just checked my records and in 1995 in Canada, the company was known as Adamson Power-Con Rosspar. I could give you their salesman's name along with his secretary's but 22 years later there's probably little
point.
Toodleoo!
Ron Hebbard.