This article is about Instrumentation and control engineering basic construction drawings with pictures for technicians and fresh instrument and control engineers to know about field engineering.
- 2-way manifold
- 3-way manifold
- 5-way manifold

- 3-way manifold associated with a transmitter

- Wall mounting bracket for a transmitter

- Mounting bracket for 2″ tube for a transmitter

- Mounting the transmitter on the mounting bracket

- BSP threads

- Metric threads

- NPT threads

- Definition of the thread

- Circular dies

- Die stock

- Making a thread

- Nuts and rings

- Male union

- Female union

- Male end fitting for tube

- Equal union fitting

- Piping penetration

- 45° elbow coupling

- 90° union elbow

- 90° male elbow coupling

- 90° female elbow coupling

- Union Tee

- Male Tee

- Female Tee

- Straight quick-connect coupling

- 90° elbow quick-connect coupling

- 45° elbow quick-connect coupling

- Quick-connect tees

- Tube precrimping tool

- Insertion of the tube in the precrimping tool

- Crimping the tube in the tool

- Insertion of the crimped tube into a coupling

- Application of Teflon (PTFE) on all couplings

- “Loctite” for sealing the couplings

- Diagram of NPT coupling with internal and external threads

- Polyamide tube

- Construction of a ‘standard’ cable

- Cu conductor/Al conductor

- Different cable sheaths (mechanical protection)

- Different PVC sheaths

- Steel wire armoured (SWA) cable

- Cross section of high temperature resistant cables

- Construction of a mineral-insulated cable

- Conventional cable U1000 R2V

- Cable HO7 RN-F

- Exploded view of an instrumentation cable

- Instrumentation cable

- Multipair instrumentation cable

- Thermocouple measuring principle

- Various compensation cables

- PROFIBUS cable
- Ethernet cable
- The RJ45 connector and its colour code
- Example of an application with a straight RJ45 cable
- Straight cable
- Ethernet cable with RJ45 crossover connector
- Example of an application with an RJ45 crossover cable
- Crossover cable
- Determining the type of RJ45 cable
- Category 5 cable
- Crimping tool for RJ45 connectors (1)
- Crimping tool for RJ45 connectors (2)
- RJ45 connectors
- Untwisted cable
- Untwisted cable with colours in the correct order
- Slide the cable into the connector
- Push the sheath
- Cable fully home in the connector
- Position of the contacts and of the plastic locking device
- Inserting the connector into the crimping tool
- Connector clipped in the crimping tool
- Ethernet cable
- Example of a standard plastic cable gland
- Standard metal cable gland
- Electrically connecting the transmitter
- Drip loop on a transmitte
- Cable gland with compression coupling
- Different types of cable trays
- Horizontal distances between cable trays
- Distances between cable trays when installed vertically
- Trefoil or aligned configurations
- Ladder rack
- Ladder cable trays
- Solid bottom cable tray
- Trough cable trays
- Perforated cable trays
- Channel Cable Tray
- Wire mesh cable trays
- Single rail cable trays
- Construction of a flat 90° bend
- Construction of a Tee piece
- Construction of a 90° external bend
- Construction of an offset
- Earthing a cable tray
- Cable termination
- Types of cable grips used on small household appliances
- Terminal connections
- Cut away the unwanted portion of the sheath
- Remove each layer of protection separately
- Typical electrician’s stripping knife
- Cutting the insulation with a knife
- Cutting the insulation with a knife
- Using wire strippers
- Set of automatic stripping (stripping and crimping) pliers
- Check the state of the conductors
- Preparing a stranded cable
- Pillar Terminal
- Overtightened set screw
- Screw terminal and nut-bolt terminals
- Round nosed – half nosed – long and short nosed pliers
- Claw washer
- Strip connectors in moulded blocks
- Connections on a strip connector
- Inserting a conductor into a terminal block
- Pressure plate terminal block
- Standard terminals for switchgear
- Standard terminals for switchgear
- Types of crimped terminations (small wire sizes)
- Crimped connection
- Table of crimp lugs / sleeves
- Hand-operated crimping tool
- Hydraulic hand-operated crimping tool
- Hydraulically-operated crimping tool kit (hand-operated, battery, hand pump)
- Remove the insulation from the wire
- Place the device on the conductor
- Place the connector in the crimping tool
- Making a crimp connection
- Released Crimping Tool
- Summary of the crimping procedure
- Bottom-die crimping tool with separate hydraulic pump
- Wrong positions of wire on lugs
- Correct positions of wire on lugs
- Preinsulated straight copper terminal lug
- Crimp in correct direction
- Crimping problems
- Double crimp recommendation for standard die dimensions