Custom Outdoor Equipment Cabinets
Outdoor equipment cabinets hold telecom, utility, and energy equipment behind gasketed doors, drip edges, and filtered openings that keep rain, dust, and sun off it. K-Display makes pad-mount, pole-mount, and wall-mount cabinets and pedestals to the NEMA type you name.
Outdoor equipment cabinets we build
We build cabinet shells with gasketed doors, drip edges, sun-shield roofs, and frames for louvers, filters, and fans, with hinges and latches installed. Shells start as aluminum, galvanneal, galvanized steel, carbon steel, or stainless steel sheet, with aluminum, carbon steel, or stainless steel seam welds, and are powder coated. Delivery is bare, coated, or with the doors hung.
We build a cabinet for battery modules as battery & energy storage enclosures.
Air passes through the side vent frame and cable through the base entry plate, while the gasketed door and the raised rain shield close off the paths water would take. The roof projects past the door so runoff falls clear of the seam.
Outdoor cabinet parts we make
- Pad-mount and floor-standing cabinets
- Welded shells with a base plinth or channel, an anchor pattern, and lifting provisions.
- Pole-mount and wall-mount cabinets
- Smaller shells with pole brackets, banding slots, or wall flanges.
- Pedestals and ground-set cabinets
- Cabinets that take cable in from below through a base entry plate.
- Doors, roofs, and vent frames
- Single or double doors with drip edges and overlaps, roof panels, and louver, filter, and fan frames.
- Base frames and entry plates
- Base channels, brackets, and gland plates with the cable openings.
Where water gets in and the coating fails
- Gasket land and door overlap
- The door seal depends on the gasket meeting a flat land under an even overlap, and weld distortion in a long door or frame lifts the door off the gasket. We sequence the welds for distortion.
- Openings and roof
- Louver, filter, and fan cutouts and roof standoffs pass rain with the air unless a drip edge or frame surrounds them. We form those edges and frames and cut drain and weep holes where the roof slope sends water.
- Edges, welds, and recesses
- Corrosion starts where the coating is thin. Powder is harder to lay into recesses and inside corners, and a rough weld or cut edge shows through the film.
- Mounting method
- The mounting method sets the load path: anchor pattern on a pad, banding on a pole, flanges on a wall, lift points on the frame, so each needs its own base.
Seams first, door last
A rough weld is blended out before the film goes on, so it does not show through the coat.
Cut and form
We laser cut the panels and openings and form the returns, drip edges, and gasket lands.
Weld and dress
We weld the seams, choosing MIG or TIG for each joint, then blend welds and cut edges.
Coat and hang the doors
We prepare the surface, mask the bare points, and powder coat. Then we install hinges, latches, and vent frames and hang the doors.
Start with the door seam
Show the door overlap, gasket section and latch positions together in the cabinet model. Those details establish the mating surfaces that forming, welding and coating must preserve.
The door gasket meets a flat land beneath the roof's drip edge. Keeping that land flat gives the gasket a consistent contact surface when the door closes.
What to send for an outdoor cabinet quote
- Model or drawing
- STEP or DXF plus a PDF, material and thickness, dimensions, weight, and quantity.
- Door and openings
- Gasket land, drip edge, and door overlap geometry, and the louver, filter, and fan openings from the thermal design.
- Site and rating
- Installation location, mounting method, and the NEMA type.
- Coating
- Powder product, color, gloss, film requirement, and the surfaces that stay bare.
- Hardware and entry
- Hinge, latch, and vent frame part numbers, and the base or gland plate entry.