Magnetic controls for industrial enclosures

A system comprising:

• an industrial enclosure having a cover with an outer surface and an inner surface opposite the outer surface;
• a plurality of magnetic controls within close proximity of one another, wherein the plurality of magnetic controls are secured to the outer surface of the cover without penetrating the inner surface of the cover;
• one or more magnetic field sensors within the industrial enclosure, wherein the one or more magnetic field sensors sense one or more characteristics of each of the plurality of magnetic controls and generate one or more signals representative of the sensed one or more characteristics of each of the plurality of magnetic controls;
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• a controller, wherein the controller receives the one or more signals representative of the sensed one or more characteristics of each of the plurality of controls and identifies each of the plurality of magnetic controls based on the received signal,
• wherein each of the plurality of magnetic controls includes a respective magnet and wherein the plurality of magnetic controls are positioned in close proximity to one another such that the respective magnet of each of the plurality of magnetic controls control does not interfere with the sensing of the one or more characteristics of each of the respective magnets of the other of the plurality of magnetic controls.

A system comprising:

• an industrial enclosure having a cover with an outer surface and an inner surface opposite the outer surface;
• a first rotatable magnetic control nested within a second rotatable magnetic control, wherein each of the first and second rotatable magnetic controls rotate about a common central axis,
• wherein the first rotatable magnetic control is rotatable to select a first operating parameter and the second rotatable magnetic control is rotatable to select a second operating parameter that is associated with the first operating parameter;
• a third magnetic control, wherein operation of the third magnetic control activates/deactivates a third operating parameter;
• wherein each of the first rotatable magnetic control, the second rotatable magnetic control, and the third magnetic control are secured to the cover of the industrial enclosure without penetrating an interior wall of the cover, and are in close proximity to one another;
• one or more magnetic field sensors within the industrial enclosure to sense one or more characteristics of the first rotatable magnetic control, the second rotatable magnetic control, and the third magnetic control, and to generate one or more signals representative of the sensed one or more characteristics;
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• a controller that receives the one or more signals and identifies each of the first rotatable magnetic control, the second rotatable magnetic control, and the third magnetic control from the one or more signals,
• wherein the close proximity of the first rotatable magnetic control, the second rotatable magnetic control, and the third magnetic control enables detection of the respective characteristic of each of the first rotatable magnetic control, the second rotatable magnetic control, and the third magnetic control without interference by the respective characteristic of the others of the first rotatable magnetic control, the second rotatable magnetic control, and the third magnetic control.