PowerRail® Distributes Redundant Power to Quick-Plug Option Modules CHALLENGE Replacement of a customer's existing bus bar and wired connections with a more reliable, quick-connect power-distribution system. SOLUTION Methode custom-congured a PowerRail® to replace the existing bus bar system. STORY Our customer’s process control system used a sheet metal bus bar with hard-wired power distribution to the various control modules. This system was unreliable and made changing the various control modules very laborious. They asked Methode to design a system with greater reliability, and that required less labor when installing add-on modules. Our team designed a 150cm long, 200A PowerRail® to t vertically in their existing cabinet. Three 48 VDC power supplies operating in (n+1) redundant con

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