Control panel props: pedestals, boxes, consoles and towers

Control pedestals and boxes on a post

Control pedestals are the machine-side pieces, a control box raised on a post, pedestal or stand. EC's book calls 10 lines control pedestals, and the table below adds 3 that the book names otherwise: E-0492, a 1 station control box on a 40 inch steel pedestal; E-0278, a control box with 3 buttons, a lever and a gauge on a 61 inch pedestal; and E-0270, a stainless steel box on 2 metal posts that the book calls a control tower. Among the pedestals, faces run from 3 stations on E-0277, a small stainless steel box on a 3 foot stand, to 33 stations and a gauge on E-0091, and E-0237 is the table top style, 27 inches tall.

Heights repeat, so a row can stand level: E-0048, E-0118 and E-0119 are all 46 inches tall, with 18, 12 and 16 stations, and E-0097 and E-0171 are both 15 deep and 48 tall. The book notes that the gauge on E-0090 is missing its lens, and the E-0270 line is cut off after "16 station", with no overall height given. Elsewhere in the book are more boxes on a pedestal or stand, such as E-0547, a gray switch box on a pedestal that the book calls a wooden mock-up, and the green metal control box E-0563.

Control and switch boxes in the table below, 30 to 68 inches tall

Most of the boxes in this table are shallow, from 7 inches deep on E-0467 to 10 on E-0373, and those lines name no stand. C-0427 is a temperature control box with 7 gauges, and E-0553 is blue, with a keypad, a door and, in the book's words, electronics inside. More control and switch boxes, such as the stainless E-0001 at 9 by 5 by 11 inches and E-0027 at 3 by 5 by 7, are filed in no category and turn up in a stock book search.

E-0206 and E-0461 are the same size, 30 by 9 by 36 inches: E-0206 in stainless steel with 10 stations, E-0461 with 2 lights, 1 switch and 1 button and no finish named. The E-0331 switch box shares their width and depth and stands 55 tall. The other stainless boxes in this table run taller, E-0329 at 54 inches with a pump handle and E-0106, floor standing, at 68. E-0562 is green metal, and its line lists 3 plugs for power cords on the side before it is cut off after 21 wide and 16 deep.

EC's index also lists this category as Breaker Boxes Stainless Steel, but a breaker appears here once, as the circuit breaker unit on E-0093; meter panels with a breaker box or breaker switch, such as E-0370 and E-0102a, are under Electric Meters.

Upright control panels in the table below, 48 to 80 inches

Among these panels the long light counts are on E-0407, with 90 lights and 37 switch buttons, and E-0406, with 84 lights, 42 switch buttons and 6 amp meters, both 24 inches wide, 9 deep and 79 tall, a pair for one wall. E-0393, 60 by 24 by 80, lists 9 meters and 40 lights and switches; its line is cut off just after the size, at "on 8"t caste". Outside the category, the book also has P-0103, a black control panel with digital readouts, the panel alone 95 inches tall, and E-0503, whose line lists 125 "light/buttons".

The panels on legs are E-0124, with an electric horn; E-0216, with a plexiglass panel covering the door; E-0351, with a touch panel; E-0190, on 2 legs; and E-0161, a box with 4 outrigger switch boxes whose line is cut off at "simulated shipboar". E-0298, with 12 gauges and 17 knobs, is the one panel line here that names stainless steel, and E-0093 adds a DANGER HIGH VOLTAGE sign to 7 stations; more signs in that wording are under High Voltage Signs.

Consoles: a same-size pair, two blues and a grilled front

E-0104 and E-0105 share a size, 38 by 15 by 72 inches, with 53 and 52 stations; E-0104 is white enamel, and the E-0105 line names no finish. E-0092 and E-0170 are blue: 9 stations, 4 gauges and a large switch on the first, 38 stations, 5 meters, an alarm bell and a door on the second, whose line is cut off at "castere". E-0294 is a heat exchange console on casters with a grilled front panel, and E-0441 has 3 louvered panels, each 9 by 8 inches.

Stainless towers and castered control units

Each tower in the first table is stainless steel: E-0006 with 2 gauges 21 inches across and 2 large dials, E-0249 with 3 digital readouts, a telephone and a clipboard, and E-0224 and E-0231, which each list 2 boxes, E-0224 at 70 inches tall.

E-0005 and E-0267 are castered stainless steel control units with 4 rotating graphs, at 124 and 74 stations, and E-0267 is 106 inches wide. E-0361, gray steel with 21 lights, 21 gauges and 34 control knobs, is the one line here the book calls period, with no decade given, and E-0004 is a 2 station box or tower with 2 timers on a metal stand with casters, 40 by 40 by 66 inches.

E-0005, E-0006, E-0249, E-0267, E-0361 and the pump station P-0305 are also filed under Computer / Control Towers, and for a power plant room, Electronic Stations adds C-0543, a gray, aged control cabinet with 36 stations, on casters.

A pump station and a gas mixer

The book files 2 lines of process equipment here too. P-0305 is a pump station with an 18 station control panel, 4 gauges, 6 valves and 6 canisters, cut off at "6 3" dia stainless s". G-0013 is a blue gas mixer, 41 by 18 by 60 inches, with a 16 inch diameter tank on a castered base and no controls listed. The other blue lines on this page, E-0092, E-0170 and E-0553, name no shade, so check the item page photos before standing them together.

106 inches wide, 79 and 80 tall, and the sizes the book cuts off

EC's policies encourage a call ahead to size the truck, and for this category the call can start from the sizes the book does give: 106 inches wide for E-0267, and 79 inches tall for E-0406 and E-0407. Ask whether the 80 inches of E-0393 include what it stands on, since its line is cut off at "on 8"t caste", and ask for the sizes the book cuts off on E-0005, E-0006, E-0249 and E-0361. Bring pads for the plexiglass panel covering the door of E-0216 and for the two 21 inch gauges on E-0006.