Now that we've talked about a few the different types of terminal blocks . We want to discuss why we might use terminal blocks and one of the biggest reasons is for safety purposes. When we have operating inside industrial control panels we want to make sure we have very safe connections where we don't have any exposed wire or terminations and terminal blocks, allow us to accomplish that another reason we use terminal blocks is they're very very durable .Which is why they are used in industrial applications .And one of the biggest reasons we use terminal blocks is for organizational purposes . As you can see here we have an industrial control panel. And you can clearly see that we have a lot of different wire terminations and things happening here. But what we do have is a very clean organized way of identify the types of wires .We have safe connections you can also probably see we have a lot of the different terminal blocks that we've already discussed in this video.
First you can see here we have single level
Terminal Block .The next type of terminal block that the
Ground Terminal block. In this particular application we have one main ground wire coming in and then we have several different components that have grounded on those terminal blocks. You can also see we have several fuse blocks in this panel. Lastly you can see here we have various different types of multi-level terminal blocks .We are using multi-level terminal blocks these are connected to instuments that would be out in the field. And those instruments require two different types of wires. So we have a wire going out the instrument and then we have a wire coming back into the instrument. So we require both of those levels on that terminal block that saves a lot of room within the control cabinet . Can also see these terminal blocks are fused as well so we can actually disconnect or protect those instruments that are wired. As you can see we've covered many different types of terminal blocks and the different uses and applications for each one .
