today we're looking at the ice cube enclosure system from Lewden Palazzoli
now this looks remarkably familiar to me it reminds me when i was in northern Italy at the
palazzoli factory and got the great pleasure of going backstage to have a look at their test lab
gordon you did you actually saw this enclosure getting a really good hose down under some high
pressure jets to validate its IP66 performance i think i'll remember i was first in line for that
jet of water before the enclosure got its covering of water yeah we did try and get you but that's
not all we saw during that visit check out the video if you haven't seen it but you'll also see
the kind of tests that validate the performance such as impact test that this kind of enclosure
goes through okay so it's got an IP66 rating and you talked about its impact yeah so this is you
know you're looking at this thing it's just this is a plastic enclosure it's not glass reinforced
plastic and it is incredibly tough IK10. yeah yeah so that is that is severe so this is
built for really demanding industrial environments okay something like this then yeah okay i pulled
this out of the family album it was a trip to a sewage works in northern scotland i once had
and yeah that's the kind of place you'd expect to see it because it's not just about the IP
rating right it's about some of the other chemicals you may find in those environments
can you give us any examples gordon well we've covered water in IP66 that's what you get test for
but then you start thinking about things like salt water alkaline chemicals solvents diluted acids
UV if it's outside for sunlight fats oils you know that's just about almost every every chemical
known to man you can throw at it okay so that's covered the enclosure itself from
your point of view but let's think about it from the electrician's point of view
yeah well let's have a little look inside gary okay so can i bring in the hand cam
yeah well let's have a look at obviously straight in with some variants okay some of you bringing
the camera there let's have a little look um sorry first obviously you can have a version
with a window okay yeah a clear door yeah and without a window okay yeah that's good so that's
the easy bit uh let's have a look at the door the dolphy check look at the door actually goes beyond
180 degrees okay yeah so when you're working in this enclosure you can get you know you can get
easy to get access to it keeps the door out the way sometimes with these enclosures and the doors
hanging there someone can come back bump it yeah not the hinges the hinges themselves recessed in
from the edge okay so it's very hard to damage the hinge itself yes okay stainless steel hinges
you can actually as well remove the door what take the door off then yeah so you can you know
depends where you're installing it you may be trapped up against the wall or something like
that you need to hinge from the other side so it's very easy to spring the door off perhaps you're
taking it off during first fix to keep it safe until later in the installation and you can hang
it therefore on the other side yeah swap there so take the uh take the stainless steel brackets off
and swap them to the other side of the enclosure yeah and then we've sort of swapped our door over
and we can have it hang the other way that's that's that's good interesting you notice the
back plane in there as well as also that's a grp back plane that red plate you see in there as well
okay so this means the door will be hanging the other way so we're swapping it around
that's an effortless process that's less than a minute in order to change the door hang i like
the way you quote it as well you could take it off during the first fix that's when something's
quite clever as well just put the hinges back in and there we go you've changed the door position
and you'll also notice in there as well this nice moulded in seal yes so again that's not going to
drop out and risk you know getting trapped and not sealing against the enclosure itself as i'm
looking at the enclosure i'm thinking how am i going to fix it to the wall gordon okay well
move this one out of the way put that one down so there's two there's two ways okay as obviously and
probably the best one is these external mountings so you can fix these lugs onto the back of the box
in two positions so coming out the side yeah or also coming out the top if you have to you can
get a mounting to put it onto a pole you can fix through these mounting centers here that you can
see marked out by the dimensions from the inside out okay and you get a cap that obviously covers
it for the IP rating but also ensures it maintains its double insulation rating oh so it's doubling
as well yeah right okay so let's flick it over then okay they want to see the really clever bits
okay so before we go inside right let's think about the locks I'm going to bring the
bring the camera in again gary let's have a look at that so you can have the two versions
so this is obviously a lockable door lock okay we can have it with that familiar triangular key
or just an unlocked handle so obviously depends on whether you want people to have easy access to it
or whether it actually needs to be securely locked but the clever stuff carries on inside doesn't it
talk us through this gordon okay so we've got this is called the click cube and the idea here is you
can assemble so say you're going to make this into a into a distribution board assemble all
the mcb's or contact us or din rail terminals off-site then take the completed assembly
and spring it into these clips this is called the click cube system so it just neatly drops into the
enclosure and then you can cover those with you know various obviously open windows to bring your
MCBs out uh or closed panels as well you just fit them with a nice little quarter turn and i
found it really easy to clip that in and then yeah like you said just a quarter turn in order to put
the plates in it's just a simple system it's very easy to install so very electrical friendly that
is and then just put the bottom one in imagine we were going to add a few extra devices in the
in the rest of the working day so there you go yeah and again the door just swings closed
we can lock the doors you've just shown us and we're away that's it i mean so that is obviously
the flexibility goes on as we get used to seeing with loon pelts early the system's a bit like lego
we've looked at that top to range in the past check out that video if you haven't seen it
but this is i guess that this is the big brother of it this is for those demanding applications
you can put a solid inner door in here so a door within a door what's thinking beyond that
door within the door say you had a you know you wanted a sort of another access panel perhaps you
had some indicators in here some push buttons that people might need to access but you still
needed another sort of layer of protection you can have that as well so we touched on chemicals
what about temperature range for this little incredibly from minus 30 to plus 100 degrees c
and the enclosures themselves what sizes they come in so they're coming in a wide range so
we've got that why are we when you're done with it where have you put the small enclosure okay
it's down here yep they've got a little one there yeah so you've got one of the smallest ones in the
range but it goes all the way up to 850 by just over a thousand millimeters now to put that into
something you'd probably you know some scale think of mcb modules okay yeah it goes from 36 modules
right all the way up to 200 modules well that's a big unit yeah so you can fit a lot of circuit
protection in there isolators contactors perhaps a plc or something like that so as always we're
interested in your feedback the click cube system what's your thinking on that i thought it was
fantastic we love your comments below what sort of enclosures are you using in onerous conditions
or perhaps even name some more owner's conditions than the sewerage farm in scotland that gordon had
please leave those comments below and we'll try and get back to as many as we
can