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Charanjeet
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Plastic Enclosure Over Metallic Enclosure

07/19/2010 9:54 AM

I am interested to know the advantage of Plastic Enclosure over the metallic enclosure for metring panel / distribution panel specially in context of EMI or electrical inteferances.

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Re: Plastic Enclosure Over Metallic Enclosure

07/20/2010 3:39 AM

<...specially in context of EMI or electrical inteferances....>

The plastic outer enclosure will have no effect whatsoever.

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Re: Plastic Enclosure Over Metallic Enclosure

07/26/2010 11:09 AM

Hi Charanjeet,

Here is a blog post highlighting the benefits of ABS plastic in electronic applications.

http://www.polycase.com/techtalk/plastic-electronic-enclosures/benefits-of-plastic-electronic-enclosures.html

There are also several posts about EMI/RFI shielding which might be helpful: http://www.polycase.com/techtalk/category/electronics-tips

Hope you find it useful!

~Resa
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