From NEMA ratings to outdoor installations, here is what the spec sheet won’t tell you  An electrical enclosure is the unsung hero of any system design, the bodyguard that nobody notices until it stops doing its job. Whether you’re housing a relay panel in a factory or junctions mounted to an outdoor pole, the enclosure you choose determines how long your equipment lasts, how safe your installation is, and whether you’ll be troubleshooting a failure at 2 a.m. or sleeping soundly.  Bud Industries has manufactured electrical enclosures for nearly a century. My blog post covers the fundamentals: what…

Continuing our review of our best-selling plastic enclosures, the Plastic Rack Mount Chassis is a definite winner.  Customers have been mounting equipment into 19” panel width cabinets and racks for nearly 100 years.  Often, rather than mounting equipment itself into the rack, such as power supplies, they are looking for an enclosure to mount their boards and other components in so that they can be easily used in the racks, such as server racks.  Most of these rack mount chassis…

While most immediately think of Bud Industries when they have an enclosure need, people often don’t think of Bud for the final touches such as NEMA Glands.  So what is a NEMA cable gland?  Put simply, when a hole is drilled in a box for cable access, the assembler needs a way to protect the interior and integrity of the box while still installing the cabling.  The cable gland is that device Cable Glands come in all sizes to meet…