Robert Laskowski,  Harting North America, Elgin, Ill, www.harting.com Wind turbine systems encompass a wide variety of components and subsystems that must be integrated and tested. The work requires several types of wiring and cables for electrical power, data communications, and control signals. In the nacelle, cabling is essential to connect generators, their slip rings, inverters,…

FieldPower devices from Weidmuller U.S., Richmond, Va, are a flexible and economic ways to decentralize power distribution anywhere there is a need to distribute power, as would be needed in and around a turbine tower and nacelle. The devices include PowerBox distribution boxes, maintenance switches, plug-in connectors (optionally with fuse function), prefabricated cable sets, and…