Premium 18-Gauge Steel Control Panel Enclosure with Integrated Cam Lock and Tamper Cutouts A professional-grade, heavy-duty steel cabinet engineered to securely house and protect main security control boards, duress alarm panels, and power supply expansion modules. Featuring a durable powder-coated finish, multiple convenient conduit knockouts, and dedicated structural slots for cabinet tamper switches and locking cylinders, this ruggedized enclosure ensures NEMA-1 level physical protection and compliance for commercial life-safety installations.
Industrial-Grade Physical Defense for Core Security Hardware
The most advanced alarm control panels and power modules are vulnerable if their central processing boards are left exposed to environmental damage, dust, or physical tampering. The DSC PC5003C is a commercial-tier, heavy-gauge steel cabinet designed to serve as a fortress for your facility's core security systems, including the PowerSeries Neo HS2064 arrays.
Fabricated from cold-rolled steel with a clean, anti-corrosive finish, this cabinet is optimized for clean interior wire tracking and long-term hardware survival. It acts as a grounded physical shield, protecting vulnerable motherboard traces from static discharge while actively delaying deliberate physical sabotage or unauthorized access by intruders looking to disable a facility's perimeter defense loops.
Key Performance Features
Heavy-Gauge Cold-Rolled Steel Construction: Structural framing stamped from 18-gauge cold-rolled steel, offering excellent rigid strength against blunt-force physical impact and structural warping.
Integrated Keyed Cam Lock Assembly: Outfitted with a pre-cut front door aperture designed to receive standard commercial security locking cylinders, ensuring that only certified technicians and system administrators gain access.
Multi-Point Tamper Switch Support: Built with internal structural slots engineered to hold front door and rear wall-pull tamper switches, immediately triggering a high-priority system fault loop if the box is opened or pried away from the wall.
Spacious Multi-Module Footprint: The interior backplane features pre-arranged mounting standoff holes designed to fit a standard large main control board alongside multiple power expanders or wireless transceivers simultaneously.
Abundant Conduit Knockouts: Engineered with multiple top, bottom, and rear pass-through knockouts ranging from standard 1/2" to 3/4" sizes, facilitating clean integration with EMT conduit piping and surface-run wire trunks.
Ventilated Heat-Dissipation Slots: Features a pattern of subtle side or face ventilation slits to encourage passive thermal cooling, keeping enclosed power transformers and backup lead-acid batteries at stable baseline temperatures.
Ideal Infrastructure Applications
Central Commercial Alarm Banks: Securely housing main intrusion and duress control hubs in building basements, electrical rooms, or IT server closets.
Distributed Power Supply Hubs: Protecting auxiliary power expanders (such as the HSC3020 or PC5204 modules) near high-draw PTZ cameras or door strike grids.
Institutional Access Point Closets: Providing a unified, lockable hardware checkpoint inside schools, government facilities, and healthcare campuses.
Technical Specification MatrixEngineering MetricSpecification ProfileMaterial Base Composition18-Gauge SPCC Cold-Rolled Structural SteelSurface Protective CoatingAnti-Static, Anti-Corrosive White Powder CoatPhysical DimensionsApprox. $288\text{ mm} \times 298\text{ mm} \times 78\text{ mm}$ ($11.3"\times 11.7"\times 3"$)Mounting OrientationHeavy-Duty Surface Wall Mount ProfileAccess Security LayoutKeyed Cam Lock Ready + Internal Dual Tamper SupportEnvironmental ProtectionNEMA Type 1 Rating (Indoor Dust & Splash Shielding)What's Included in the System Setup
DSC PC5003C Heavy-Duty Steel Enclosure
Form-Fitting Removable Cabinet Door
Board Mount Standoff Screws and Grounding Nut
Conduit Hole Protective Gaskets
Required for Field Integration: Core Control Boards, Keyed Lock Cylinder, and Tamper Switches (Sold Separately)