Variable frequency drives - keypad adaptor

A method comprising:

• semi-permanently affixing a mounting structure with an adapter to a front face of a cabinet door of a VFD cabinet housing one or more VFDs, including affixing the mounting structure over and covering a preexisting opening in the cabinet door, the preexisting opening being sized for a legacy keypad and the adapter being shaped to support and hold an upgraded keypad having a different size than the legacy keypad;
• semi-permanently affixing the upgraded keypad to the adapter, including physically and communicatively coupling a keypad electrical interface of the upgraded keypad to an adapter port of the adapter, the communicative coupling facilitating an exchange of signals;
• extending an electrical conductor portion of the adapter through an aperture in the mounting structure for allowing access to an electrical conductor of the electrical conductor portion via the preexisting opening;
• and
• communicatively coupling the electrical conductor adapter to the adapter port and to a VFD electrical interface of the VFD cabinet for facilitating an exchange of signals.

An upgraded VFD cabinet comprising:

• a variable frequency drive (VFD) cabinet housing one or more VFDs;
• a cabinet door of the cabinet, the cabinet door having a preexisting opening sized for a legacy keypad;
• a mounting structure configured to be semi-permanently affixed to a front face of the cabinet door and to cover the preexisting opening in the cabinet door;
• an adapter having a front face that is shaped to support and hold an upgraded keypad having a different size than the legacy keypad, the adapter being configured to be permanently or semi-permanently affixed to the mounting structure, wherein the adapter includes:
• an adapter port that mates with a keypad electrical interface of the upgraded keypad for establishing a communicative coupling for exchanging signals between the adapter port and the keypad electrical interface;
• and
• an electrical conductor portion having an electrical conductor configured to communicatively couple the adapter port to a VFD electrical interface of the VFD cabinet for exchanging signals.