Another First for PDU Cables
As the first power cable manufacturer to offer color choices of liquid-tight conduit, PDU Cables has expanded its offering to include eleven colors for its receptacle boxes and faceplates (blue, black, red, orange, green, yellow, gray, pink, white, purple and brown).
The use of Colored Faceplates & Boxes
Color coding power cables in a mission critical facility makes tracing and managing primary and redundant power sources and key infrastructural systems and components easier, and in data center management easier usually translates into fewer outages and less downtime.
To make data center management easier, PDU Cables, the first branch circuit power whip manufacturer to offer colored conduit, now offers colored face plates and boxes painted to match its eleven colors of Liquid-Tight Flexible Metal Conduit.
Even if you aren't using Liquid-Tight Flexible Metal Conduit, you can still color code your branch circuit power whips for primary and redundant power sources.
PDU Cables has colored faceplates and boxes in all eleven colors for various styles of both weatherproof and 1900 boxes, the perfect way to add color for cable management even if they are mated to greenfield or Flexible Metal Conduit (RWS or RWA).
Multiple Colors Permit:
- The separation of primary power from redundant power.
- Easier identification of power feeds and panel board within the PDU.
- PDU Cables ensures that the colors of the faceplates and boxes remain consistent from order-to-order.
Color Matched Box, Faceplatge and Conduit (Black)
Color Matched Box, Faceplate and Conduit (White)
Color Matched Box, Faceplate and Conduit Label with Greenfield Conduit
Color Coordinated Orange Box, Faceplate and Conduit
Color Coordinated Green Box, Faceplate and Conduit
Color Coding for Dual Power Source
Comparing Color to No Color
Color Matched Daisy Chain Multi-Circuit
Color Matched 1900 Box, Faceplate and Conduit
NEMA CS8369 with Color Matched Red 1900 Box, Faceplate and Conduit
NEMA CS8369 with Color Matched Blue 1900 Box, Faceplate and Conduit
Color Matched Red Weatherproof Box, Faceplate and Conduit
Color in the Data Center & Colored Conduit
The importance of Color in the Data Center
The abundance of Gray, Black and White in most data centers hides the fact that color plays an important role in the management and uptime of many of the industry’s most successful leading edge data centers.
Look behind the racks and cabinets, pull a floor tile or open up an RPP and you’ll see a wealth of color. Color provides quick visual identification. Color coding simplifies management and can save time when tracing cables. If you are purchasing cables from a supplier with limited color options or if you are making your own power cables, you can use color tape or banding for the ends of the cables to identify the power sources.
With PDU Cables you get the entire cable in a color of your choice for no extra cost.
The use of Colored Conduit
A data centers greatest challenge is keeping its equipment up and running 24/7, especially during maintenance on the critical power paths that feed the equipment. Even if your site allows you to shut down periodically, you are still faced with the possibility of failed power supplies in the IT equipment, or tripped circuit breakers, which can cause an outage.
Most data centers have adopted the use of redundant power sources and a good way to organize those dual power feeds is to match liquid tight conduit by color for each power source. For added convenience and improved cable management, PDU Cables offers eleven colors of conduit allowing data centers to have unique colors for each primary and redundant PDU/RPP unit.
Matching and managing colored wires are critical in a data center environment. Using liquid tight color conduit to help manage the cabling of the data center equipment makes your job easier, and with the eleven different colors of the industry’s highest quality conduit makes sense.
Eleven Liquid Tight Conduit Colors
As the first cable assembly manufacturer to offer colored liquid-tight conduit, PDU Cables has expanded its offering to eleven colors (Blue, Black, Red, Orange, Green, Yellow, Gray, Pink, White, Brown and Purple).
The separation of primary power from redundant power. Multiple Conduit Colors Permit:
Easier identification of panel board within the PDU.
Clearly mark mission critical cable runs.
Make your job easier when isolating power sources with separate colored conduit from PDU Cables.
Identify individual cable runs from each PDU to ensure dual corded equipment is fed from both power paths.
PDU Cables ensures that the colors of the conduit remain consistent from order-to-order.
Using color conduit is an easy way to identify A/B path for dual corded equipment.
We match our colors from batch to batch to make sure that the colors you order today will match the colors you ordered a year ago.
Color coded liquid tight conduit is the perfect solution for managing a dual corded power supply.
