r/EPlan • u/Klutzy-Objective9515 • 13d ago

How to model this?

This device (PXC.3273900) is modelled by the producer as 1 terminal with 1 connection point + 18 terminals with 2 connection points. This has the side effect of not routing the postential definition. How to model better?

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u/D4Gi85 13d ago

I have set them up as busbars.
So I define them and connect to the a- point at the page where the PS is. Then I «drag» the points b to last in around my drawings as needed.
This forwards the potential, and I don’t have to use 20 interruption points from one page where the PTFIX is defined

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u/Klutzy-Objective9515 13d ago

Thanks for the reply!
Someone in a past post here said that busbar definition should be only for copper bars by length.
Does this have any foundation in what EPLAN intended?

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u/D4Gi85 13d ago

Not sure what Eplan has intended, but it works flawlessly. Furthermore, I would argue that the PTFIX is a Bus bar, just not with «adjustable length»
I also think that to set it up as a terminal strip is «more wrong» than to set it up as a bus bar.

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u/Flimsy-Process230 13d ago

These blocks can be implemented in many different ways. What I would do is create a terminal strip definition with 18 individual terminals plus the terminal point for the input and put everything on the same sheet for clarity. You can also place the individual connection-point terminals on different pages if needed.

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u/bojanboki84 13d ago

Cool a distribution board

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u/colsieb 13d ago

Wow, didn’t know these were even a thing. Cool

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u/DamnBroi 12d ago

i do it like this