While I think that the cat?s Meow in panel labeling is silk-screening, or maybe engraved panels with electroluminescent backlighting, I have resigned myself to the fact that when I am designing a panel, I inevitably make changes during construction, and these changes often mean that the labels I intended for switches and/or indicators have to change. For this reason, I prefer labels made with the Brother labeler using black or white colored letters on clear film. My experience is that if you burnish them well, the clear disappears and they stick forever.
The only trick folks seem to have with these is getting them on nice and straight. The trick I use is to pull out the back-rivet tape ? low-stickiness magic tape ? and use it to give myself a guide line. Here is our RV-3 circuit breaker panel in the process of being labeled:
And here is how it looks when it?s finished:
Of course, since I ?finished? it, I have slightly changed the functions of two circuit breakers ? but you?d never know it, because all I had to do was change the individual labels?.
Paul
The only trick folks seem to have with these is getting them on nice and straight. The trick I use is to pull out the back-rivet tape ? low-stickiness magic tape ? and use it to give myself a guide line. Here is our RV-3 circuit breaker panel in the process of being labeled:
And here is how it looks when it?s finished:
Of course, since I ?finished? it, I have slightly changed the functions of two circuit breakers ? but you?d never know it, because all I had to do was change the individual labels?.
Paul
