Benshaw Push Buttons
Benshaw push buttons are designed to provide reliable and enduring performance in industrial control systems. They interface simply with users, allowing straightforward and direct control over machinery and equipment. Benshaw push buttons are employed typically to initiate, terminate, or engage an emergency function. They are used in a huge array of applications, from single to multiple push-button controllers, and across many industries, including manufacturing, automation, and process control.
Benshaw push buttons conform to safety standards in the industry, making them appropriate for use in controls required to carry out tasks with a critical safety function. This includes applications for push buttons that are used in emergency stop situations. Like other predefined control devices, push buttons must be designed and operated to ensure that they are effective when needed and not effective when they shouldn't be—but they must also be easy to use. In control tasks that could be needed in an emergency, or for situations that require increased manual dexterity, Benshaw push buttons deliver a safe and reliable method of control.
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Maintaining NEMA 4 Rating When Making Enclosure Penetrations
Cutouts are very common when modifying enclosures for push buttons, indication lights, conduit entries or mounting hardware. Cutting into an enclosure runs the risk of eliminating the protective nature of the NEMA rated attributes. Proper steps must be followed in order to preserve the NEMA rating of an enclosure.
Devices mounted to the enclosure must have the same NEMA rating as the enclosure.
This means that if the devices are installed to the manufacturer's specifications, they will be able to maintain the NEMA rating of the enclosure.
Water tight conduit hubs must be used when running wire through a cutout in an enclosure.
There are many different types of conduit hubs that are used to secure conduit to an enclosure. However, only certain conduit hubs are rated for a watertight seal. By using water tight hubs, the NEMA rating of the enclosure is maintained.
Bonded washers are necessary when mounting hardware to an enclosure.
If standard mounting hardware is used, the NEMA rating of the enclosure will no longer be maintained. Bonded washers have rubber gaskets that make a watertight seal around the drilled hole. It is also important to make sure the material used for the bonded washer matches the material of the enclosure. Stainless steel enclosures require stainless steel bonded washers.