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For example, a single Level 1 terminal strip marked with Level 1 code
"001,002,004" runs between three back plates with mounted components,
two on the left (footprint Level 1 codes of "001" and "002") and one on the
right (footprint Level 1 codes "004"). If the terminal strip is marks as follows:
"IE 001," "IE 002," and "EI 004," then wiring leaving the left-hand back plates
attach to the terminal strip on the left-hand side ("I" in the first character
position) and wiring leaving the right-hand plate attaches to the right side of
the terminal strip ("I" in the second character position).
Maximum wires per terminal connection
Defines the number of wires (either 1 or 2 per side) allowed per terminal
connection in the Panel Terminal Strip report.
Maximum terminals
Defines the total number of terminal blocks on the entire supplementary
terminal strip for the Panel Terminal Strip report. A blank value indicates that
the terminal strip length is undefined.
Maximum/minimum wire size
Determines a range of wire sizes allowable to be connected to the
supplementary terminal strip. Wires that are outside the allowed range of the
terminal strip bypass it. A blank value in both maximum and minimum edit
boxes indicates that this check is not performed.
A connected wire's size is extracted from the wire line's layer name. AutoCAD
Electrical simply parses the wire's layer name for the first numeric value found
within the name. For example, a wire layer name based on metric wire sizes
of "WHITE-2.5MM^2" yields a size value of "2.5". A wire layer that might be
set up for AWG wire sizes, "RED_14_XHW", indicates a size value of "14".
For example, the project used AWG-style wire sizes with layer names to match
(for example, BLK_12_THHN and RED_16_MTW). The terminal block accepts
wire sizes from thin AWG 24 through heavy AWG 12. Set up the maximum
edit box to read "12" and the minimum edit box to read "24."
Allowed level to level connection direction
Select from:
Wiring from 3-digit code assignments both higher and lower than
the terminal's assigned operating level code (the "Level 1-4 radio
All
buttons" described previously) can pass freely through this terminal
strip.
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