You should buy it.

 

Which one?!?

 

I'm missing something here ??

Any control panel I've installed was either on plywood or on unistrut.

What's the advantage with the perforated board ?

 

No drilling means no swarf so less chance something will get in a expensive part thus no need to remove the gear during assembly

 

Never seen a perforated one before but its got my interest.

Will have to order one next time just to try it.

 

You’re only allowed to mount one thing inside of the enclosure, right?

 

Only in Canada :biggrin:

Down south it's 6 or 8 ????

 

I'm actually doing a panel now with a perforated backboard... 0.25" holes at 0.5" CtC, and that was exactly why I thought to do it--easier to mount DIN and Panduit perfectly square without any drilling.

 

I was working on one today, and will tomorrow. I will try to get a couple of pictures in , although this job is pretty stressful and I have been mostly not taking many pictures.

 

The perforations mean it will be even easier for someone to mount a definite purpose contactor in there with a sheetrock screw down the road.

 

I believe the proper shortcut is to use a long Tapcon screw rammed in crooked and forced against the enclosure back pushing the back pan out.lain:

 

Says "Perforations accept self-tapping screws for mounting lightweight components" Like drill and tap better, and using a square is easy enough

 

That's a good catch. I was sold on perforated but seeing "lightweight" there, I checked the specs at Hubbell. Both the perforated and the solid say they are for "lightweight" components, but the perforated panels are 14 gauge and the solid are 12 gauge.

Usually I wouldn't think twice about this but I have one row of power supplies on this one that's going to be pretty heavy, I don't want it to be floppy. So I might wait until the next project to start using these perforated panels.

 

We call it a back pan (short for panel I guess).

 

Example:

 

When I was an Apprentice in the U.K. we used perforated panel for backboard often for field mounted instrumentation and control panels .Used lots of perforated cable tray as well ; up to 18" width for both copper pneumatic lines and the electrical cables since they were mostly copper pyrotenex cables.

 

I float a 12 gauge aluminum sheet for DIN/component and Pandit mounting inside my control panels - easy to drill and tap and holds heavier components.