On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, Peter St. John wrote:
On the subject of Doug's "A Case for Cases" http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7164, I had noticed that the Helmer thing ("bewwulf in an Ikea cabinet") is not really in a wood cabinet (the steel box can be put inside a cabinet). I'm assuming it's unreasonable to actually make a wood cabinet? On account of humidy, or just weight? To me it just sounds easy to build a wooden rack for a bunch of ATX motherboards. And it could look nice. Thermal and electrical insulation would be OK, and humidy controlled with a good paint job on the interior...?
What about fire? Anything electrical can in a worst case pop hot/molten metal before frying and/or blowing a breaker. Capacitors blow up (literally). A wire is badly soldered and pulls free and grounds out, spattering white hot metal. Inside a metal shell, odds are you won't get a REAL fire as there isn't much actively flammable around. In a wooden box, carefully dried by six months of 50C heat... it wouldn't take a lot to get real flames, especially if the box had e.g. a cooling fan mounted to actively fan a hot coal into flames. rgb
Peter
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