JohnSwenson wrote: > Lots of stuff to talk about here, some very good points raised, first > power supply: > > Cases: Norm you are right, I was just going to screw the Gen1 board onto > a pice of plywood for my own use. I can certainly design it to fit a > case if we can find own that works well. I want to keep the edge that > has the connectors to 3" so I can get all the connectors on there. > > I like the slide into extrusion concept, I have used it many times. One > variaton I have done is use PCBs for the end panels, the board makers > have the soldermask available in many different colors and silkscreen > can handle labels etc. One interesting technique I use is to put holes > in the soldermask so the underlying glold plating shows through, you can > do logos, model name etc with this that REALLY look nice. I did one with > blue solder mask and the gold showing through that was stunning. The > price can be less than laser cut aluminum, and they can look quite > striking. > > John S.
John, I'm struggling to fit all the connectors required on a 3" wide PCB. Even if we use stacked connectors for USB/Eth, Audio L/R we still need room for DC, Toslink and SPdif - all looking a bit on the tight side, we certainly can't fit anything else. Is there such a thing as a stacked Toslink/ SPdif (RCA) connector assembly? I can't find any. I've found an extruded case that will fit a 75x120mm board - Hammond 1455J1201BK. I like the idea of solder mask/screenprint PCBs as end panels - have seen this before and it can look quite nice. The PCB end panels could be a direct replacement for the ones supplied with the Hammond case sitting nicely in the end bezels. A quick sketch - please ignore the dual USB, I could find a single Eth/USB model. 14418 The Hammond case - the front panel is not standard. 14419 +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Filename: MC End Panels.JPG | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=14419| +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ norman12's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4436 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97881 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
