As many of you know the movement of wood into the new area has been slowed due to a lack of power. It was hoped that a source of the twist drop boxes could be found to facilitate the electrical connections needed.

Sorry, that most likely aint gonna happen. As the people at Viking said, "that is so out of code". The only remaining hope is that some scavenged part supplier has a stock. We are still checking them, but don't count on that. John and I have started shifting the assets we have and are moving some of the equipment in. However Electrical will now be on a catch as catch can basis so the move will be slowed even further.

A better update later this week.

well, on the plus side of things, we now know sort of what it is. thanks for all the research judeling.

Can you be more specific? I've got a pile of industrial electric stuff.

-Jim Hart

Boltz,

It is a power track fused disconnect box. Think industrial track lighting. The boxes have a tee at the top that twist into the track and two ground/support clips. They are fused or breakered and will have a cord or a knockout for a cord.

Hope that helps.

I'm going over there right now, can someone direct me to how I can take pictures of it to post here and help facilitate sourcing the parts?

I've got a picture I need to dump out of my phone, but the sample piece was in rough shape. I get it posted soon. Also I think sparkhut as researching it the other day, he may have more info.

Pete

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I see the code concerns some people have. lol

This is now manufactured by Siemens, as the BD Busway System. From the brochure I found:

Are you sure? I only find 3 and 4 phase stuff when I search for BD Busway taps, what we need is all 120V single phase track and connectors.

To be clear, there are huge 3 phase delta buses through out the space, but they have no neutral or ground, so they are only useful for 3 phase equipment. So they aren't helpful for 120V outlets, which is the primary need. For ordinary tools etc we want 120V or 220V single phase with neutrals. The pictured tap plugs into the 120V strips that have the fused taps with portable cord coming out of them. The strips / buses are white for the most part and tight up against the ceiling, where as the big 3 phase busses are black and hang down lower.

Pete

Yeah, it's confusing... I'm finding references in Google to Siemens "Trol-E-Duct", but when you follow the links to Siemens there's nothing there. Maybe they renamed that particular product, or discontinued it.