Nema Cabinet Ratings

Electrical equipment in hazardous areas.

Nema cabinet ratings.

Nema 3 enclosures are manufactured and designed to protect household electrical controls rotating equipment generator skids. In the electrical world nema stands for national electrical manufacturers association an association of us based equipment manufacturers that produce standards used by many equipment manufacturers. Nema rating ip equivalent nema definition protection against solids protection against liquids. Nema ratings for enclosures.

Ip code iec ingress protection code a similar standard. Nemaco provides quality electrical enclosures that adhere to nema rating standards. Call nemaco if you have any additional technical questions about electrical enclosures. Nema connector another common but mostly unrelated set of standards from nema.

We offers designs that adhere to 6 different nema enclosures ratings. The testing method of nema 12 rating is consist of 2 tests. The chart will assist in specifying which enclosure rating is appropriate for the environment and application needed. If unsure of the enclosure rating that is required of your project please refer to the design chart below.

Also it protects electrical types of equipment used and aboard ship docks construction sites and even equipment used in subway systems or tunnels. National electrical manufacturers association nema. In order to pass nema 12 criteria of ul 50 50e nema 250 ratings enclosures and cabinets are required to tested in methond and prove to provide protection against circulating dust dripping light splashing liquid and oil. Nema enclosure ratings are similar to iec ip codes and can offer the same protections but cannot be mapped directly.

Enclosures constructed for indoor use to provide a degree of protection to personnel against incidental contact with the enclosed equipment and to provide a degree of protection against falling dirt. Nema 3r 4 4x 6 6p and 12. Nema is a rating system for equipment that might be exposed to liquids rain ice corrosion and contaminates such as dust. Nema enclosures produce nema 12 enclosures which are intended mainly for indoor industrial manufacturing and machining applications.

Nema enclosure ratings define where an enclosure was designed to be used and the level of protection it was designed to provide. Each of these ratings indicate different levels of protection against ingress of solids and liquids. At nema enclosures our knowledge and experience in nema rated enclosures is so extensive it s in our name.