Re: [AFMUG] Enclosure low temperature

2015-05-19 Thread Bill Prince
About the lowest we see around here is near freezing (0° C), and we haven't seen actual freezing temps in at least 3 years or so. bp part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com On 5/18/2015 7:09 PM, Forrest Christian (List Account) wrote: What is the lowest temperature that each of you would normally expect

Re: [AFMUG] Enclosure low temperature

2015-05-19 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
1) Non-industrial temperature range. 2) Note the requirement for a SD card. 3) 2.5W power consumption vs 1W (I sell a LOT based on this alone). 4) Product lifetime - how long are these going to be available (look at the raspberry Pi - how many revs have there been - all slightly incompatible with

Re: [AFMUG] Enclosure low temperature

2015-05-19 Thread Chuck McCown
seconds with 1/4 watt if insulated properly. From: Forrest Christian (List Account) Sent: Monday, May 18, 2015 8:09 PM To: af Subject: [AFMUG] Enclosure low temperature What is the lowest temperature that each of you would normally expect to see in your enclosures? The reason I'm asking

Re: [AFMUG] Enclosure low temperature

2015-05-19 Thread Paul McCall
There are times here when it gets really cold, around 35degrees Fahrenheit. ☺ From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Forrest Christian (List Account) Sent: Monday, May 18, 2015 10:09 PM To: af Subject: [AFMUG] Enclosure low temperature What is the lowest temperature that each

[AFMUG] Enclosure low temperature

2015-05-19 Thread Vince West
That was my assumption. I wasn't sure if embedded would be cheaper or not to put on the boards. Having more memory doesn't hurt either. I do like the idea of picking my own memory. I assume running on board memory generates less heat than an microSD slot? On May 18, 2015 11:35 PM, Forrest

Re: [AFMUG] Enclosure low temperature

2015-05-19 Thread Bill Prince
@afmug.com *Subject:* [AFMUG] Enclosure low temperature What is the lowest temperature that each of you would normally expect to see in your enclosures? The reason I'm asking is that I'm in the process of developing up a few new products. To date, all of the packetflux products are designed

Re: [AFMUG] Enclosure low temperature

2015-05-19 Thread Chuck McCown
We hit –69 here in Utah. (and +116 too, 185 degree spread) http://www.deseretnews.com/article/116318/PETER-SINKS-UTAHS-COLDEST-SPOT.html?pg=all From: Bill Prince Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2015 7:55 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Enclosure low temperature -40 is almost 100 degrees

Re: [AFMUG] Enclosure low temperature

2015-05-19 Thread Chuck McCown
PM To: af Subject: [AFMUG] Enclosure low temperature What is the lowest temperature that each of you would normally expect to see in your enclosures? The reason I'm asking is that I'm in the process of developing up a few new products. To date, all of the packetflux products

Re: [AFMUG] Enclosure low temperature

2015-05-19 Thread Bill Prince
8:09 PM *To:* af mailto:af@afmug.com *Subject:* [AFMUG] Enclosure low temperature What is the lowest temperature that each of you would normally expect to see in your enclosures? The reason I'm asking is that I'm in the process of developing up a few new products. To date, all

Re: [AFMUG] Enclosure low temperature

2015-05-19 Thread Adam Moffett
, 2015 7:55 AM *To:* af@afmug.com mailto:af@afmug.com *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Enclosure low temperature -40 is almost 100 degrees lower than we ever see inside any of our cabinets. Just checking around our network, about the lowest I see anytime in the last year has been ~~ 50 degrees. bp part15sbs

Re: [AFMUG] Enclosure low temperature

2015-05-19 Thread That One Guy /sarcasm
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Enclosure low temperature -40 is almost 100 degrees lower than we ever see inside any of our cabinets. Just checking around our network, about the lowest I see anytime in the last year has been ~~ 50 degrees. bp part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com On 5/19/2015 6:50 AM, Chuck

Re: [AFMUG] Enclosure low temperature

2015-05-19 Thread Chuck McCown
Galacticly speaking, yes. From: Adam Moffett Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2015 8:46 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Enclosure low temperature Is Utah located near Antarctica? On 5/19/2015 9:59 AM, Chuck McCown wrote: We hit –69 here in Utah. (and +116 too, 185 degree spread) http

Re: [AFMUG] Enclosure low temperature

2015-05-19 Thread Jaime Solorza
Fahrenheit. J *From:* Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] *On Behalf Of *Forrest Christian (List Account) *Sent:* Monday, May 18, 2015 10:09 PM *To:* af *Subject:* [AFMUG] Enclosure low temperature What is the lowest temperature that each of you would normally expect to see in your

Re: [AFMUG] Enclosure low temperature

2015-05-19 Thread Bill Prince
cold, around 35degrees Fahrenheit. J *From:*Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] *On Behalf Of *Forrest Christian (List Account) *Sent:* Monday, May 18, 2015 10:09 PM *To:* af *Subject:* [AFMUG] Enclosure low temperature What is the lowest

Re: [AFMUG] Enclosure low temperature

2015-05-19 Thread Chuck McCown
Yeah, took the fam to Disneyland in the middle of winter. Coming from Utah. We were loving it, everyone else were in coats. From: Bill Prince Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2015 10:52 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Enclosure low temperature That was me a long time ago when I moved from

Re: [AFMUG] Enclosure low temperature

2015-05-19 Thread TJ Trout
Lowest we see is mid 20s f On May 19, 2015 7:48 AM, Chuck McCown ch...@wbmfg.com wrote: Galacticly speaking, yes. *From:* Adam Moffett dmmoff...@gmail.com *Sent:* Tuesday, May 19, 2015 8:46 AM *To:* af@afmug.com *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Enclosure low temperature Is Utah located near

[AFMUG] Enclosure low temperature

2015-05-18 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
What is the lowest temperature that each of you would normally expect to see in your enclosures? The reason I'm asking is that I'm in the process of developing up a few new products. To date, all of the packetflux products are designed with components rated -40 to +85C (I.E way cold to way hot).

Re: [AFMUG] Enclosure low temperature

2015-05-18 Thread Mathew Howard
Yeah... I have no idea if it would be practical, or even work... but it's an idea. I can't imagine that -13F would be a problem inside an enclosure around here, since they're normally going to be enough electronics in there to make a fair amount of heat, but if there was an extended power outage

Re: [AFMUG] Enclosure low temperature

2015-05-18 Thread Mark Radabaugh
-13F would be the minimum I would expect to see. That is pretty much the minimum OAT here and the enclosures are usually at least 10F warmer. I would expect internal heating to keep the SD warm. What is the failure if the SD card is too cold? The unit won't boot until it warms up? I

Re: [AFMUG] Enclosure low temperature

2015-05-18 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
There are solutions, it just comes down to bits per dollar. A SD card + socket probably costs around $5-6 to implement, including card. For that you get around 4GB (4096MB) or so. Plus if you're picky about the brand you can get a card with built-in wear leveling, etc, so you don't have to

Re: [AFMUG] Enclosure low temperature

2015-05-18 Thread George Skorup
Why not NAND flash, or is that what you're talking about? The MT boards don't seem to have too many problems with temperature as far as the flash goes. On 5/18/2015 10:35 PM, Forrest Christian (List Account) wrote: There are solutions, it just comes down to bits per dollar. A SD card +

Re: [AFMUG] Enclosure low temperature

2015-05-18 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
There's a lot of things along those lines: The current sitemonitor base unit has 128KB of program memory, 3808 *bytes* (not kb, not mb) of RAM, and an external 1MB flash storage used for configuration and web page storage. I haven't consumed the entire 1MB flash, but that's largely because of

Re: [AFMUG] Enclosure low temperature

2015-05-18 Thread Josh Reynolds
Honest question. Here's the specs on the ODROID-C1: - * Amlogic ARM® Cortex®-A5(ARMv7) 1.5Ghz quad core CPUs * Mali™-450 MP2 GPU (OpenGL ES 2.0/1.1 enabled for Linux and Android) * 1Gbyte DDR3 SDRAM * Gigabit Ethernet * 40pin GPIOs * eMMC4.5 HS200 Flash Storage slot AND UHS-1 SDR50 MicroSD

Re: [AFMUG] Enclosure low temperature

2015-05-18 Thread Lewis Bergman
I don't know what you have seen but the percentage of components failing at the lie side of the range is pretty small. Having said that, we might have temps down to +10 f for three days on the extreme side so what do I know. On May 18, 2015 9:09 PM, Forrest Christian (List Account)

Re: [AFMUG] Enclosure low temperature

2015-05-18 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
And since the card is going to be trapped in a similarly sized enclosure with slightly more power consumption, it's probably a good indication. On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 8:31 PM, Jeremy jeremysmi...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, that is why I mentioned that it was the internal site monitor temperature.

Re: [AFMUG] Enclosure low temperature

2015-05-18 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
, 2015 9:32 PM *To:* af@afmug.com *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Enclosure low temperature This winter was pretty cold. For about a week straight in the middle of January and again in February, I had a few base units reporting under 0F every night. And I know the outside air temp was -20 to -25F

Re: [AFMUG] Enclosure low temperature

2015-05-18 Thread Jaime Solorza
Lots depends on enclosure and its size. For heat dissipation you usually size them larger. You could size smaller and depending what device is inside my supply some heat.Enclosure heaters start at around 25.00 at Automation Direct fyi Jaime Solorza On May 18, 2015 8:34 PM, Adam Moffett

Re: [AFMUG] Enclosure low temperature

2015-05-18 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
I actually plan on shipping with the SD card inside (i.e. not intended to be end-user removable), but I definitely was thinking that adding an extended temp range version for an appropriate additional price would be an option. On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 8:14 PM, Adam Moffett dmmoff...@gmail.com

Re: [AFMUG] Enclosure low temperature

2015-05-18 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
:* Monday, May 18, 2015 9:32 PM *To:* af@afmug.com *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Enclosure low temperature This winter was pretty cold. For about a week straight in the middle of January and again in February, I had a few base units reporting under 0F every night. And I know the outside air temp was -20

Re: [AFMUG] Enclosure low temperature

2015-05-18 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
Yep, NAND flash is what I'm talking about. At quantities matching product sales, 64MB is about as big as you can get at the same pricing as that 4GB SD card. There are some less expensive parallel parts available, but for various reasons, none of them is suitable for this design (the cost of

Re: [AFMUG] Enclosure low temperature

2015-05-18 Thread Chris Fabien
We see -20F ambient once a winter most years. On May 18, 2015 10:09 PM, Forrest Christian (List Account) li...@packetflux.com wrote: What is the lowest temperature that each of you would normally expect to see in your enclosures? The reason I'm asking is that I'm in the process of developing

Re: [AFMUG] Enclosure low temperature

2015-05-18 Thread Josh Reynolds
Why not both? On May 18, 2015 7:35:37 PM AKDT, Forrest Christian (List Account) li...@packetflux.com wrote: There are solutions, it just comes down to bits per dollar. A SD card + socket probably costs around $5-6 to implement, including card. For that you get around 4GB (4096MB) or so. Plus

Re: [AFMUG] Enclosure low temperature

2015-05-18 Thread George Skorup
Yeah, that could be useful. But why not just store stuff like this in RAM? Perfect example is the throughput monitoring statistics on Canopy. It obviously doesn't persist across reboots. I know you probably don't have a lot of RAM to work with though. Let me give you another example

Re: [AFMUG] Enclosure low temperature

2015-05-18 Thread Adam Moffett
Wouldn't the simple answer be to offer the device and SD card as separate items? Then on your site you say, If you want to have storage with the same industrial temperature range as the rest of my product line then buy this card, or supply your own at your own risk. Everybody selling fiber

Re: [AFMUG] Enclosure low temperature

2015-05-18 Thread Josh Luthman
-13f isn't that hateful. It's not that cold here :P Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On May 18, 2015 10:14 PM, Adam Moffett dmmoff...@gmail.com wrote: Wouldn't the simple answer be to offer the device and SD card as separate

Re: [AFMUG] Enclosure low temperature

2015-05-18 Thread Adam Moffett
The danger you have to consider is a cold start, such as if the power was off for awhile. On 5/18/2015 10:32 PM, George Skorup wrote: This winter was pretty cold. For about a week straight in the middle of January and again in February, I had a few base units reporting under 0F every night.

[AFMUG] Enclosure low temperature

2015-05-18 Thread Vince West
Is there no solution for embedded memory instead of a card slot? I am assuming it is cost prohibitive or it does not work for your project. That being said there have been days in the winter where we see -5° for days in a row. It doesn't happen often. Even with heat generated from equipment, I am

Re: [AFMUG] Enclosure low temperature

2015-05-18 Thread Josh Reynolds
SD/CF cards freeze in cold weather :( On May 18, 2015 6:09:07 PM AKDT, Forrest Christian (List Account) li...@packetflux.com wrote: What is the lowest temperature that each of you would normally expect to see in your enclosures? The reason I'm asking is that I'm in the process of developing up

Re: [AFMUG] Enclosure low temperature

2015-05-18 Thread Jeremy
The coldest that I saw INSIDE our enclosures this year (accordint to SiteMonitor internal temperature) was 0-C (32-F). Last year was much colder but back then I was using the APC for temperature and backup, and that graph data has all been deleted. I can't say for sure if the temperature in the

Re: [AFMUG] Enclosure low temperature

2015-05-18 Thread Josh Luthman
That probe is a lot warmer than the enclosure. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On May 18, 2015 10:23 PM, Jeremy jeremysmi...@gmail.com wrote: The coldest that I saw INSIDE our enclosures this year (accordint to SiteMonitor internal

Re: [AFMUG] Enclosure low temperature

2015-05-18 Thread Adam Moffett
Ok, but Forrest is using all industrial components that are rated to -40C. Are you saying he should add a resistor just to pre-heat the SD slot? ...ok maybe you're on to something there. How about that Forrest? Would a 10cent resistor and 2 minute pre-boot warmup eliminate any issue? On

Re: [AFMUG] Enclosure low temperature

2015-05-18 Thread Ken Hohhof
that cold. From: George Skorup Sent: Monday, May 18, 2015 9:32 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Enclosure low temperature This winter was pretty cold. For about a week straight in the middle of January and again in February, I had a few base units reporting under 0F every night. And I

Re: [AFMUG] Enclosure low temperature

2015-05-18 Thread Jeremy
Yeah, that is why I mentioned that it was the internal site monitor temperature. Forrest knows almost exactly how far off it is from the ambient temperature. On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 8:28 PM, Josh Luthman j...@imaginenetworksllc.com wrote: That probe is a lot warmer than the enclosure. Josh

Re: [AFMUG] Enclosure low temperature

2015-05-18 Thread George Skorup
This winter was pretty cold. For about a week straight in the middle of January and again in February, I had a few base units reporting under 0F every night. And I know the outside air temp was -20 to -25F. Obviously take the base unit's temp reading with a grain of salt because it's clearly

Re: [AFMUG] Enclosure low temperature

2015-05-18 Thread Mathew Howard
You could get around that by putting a heater on board to warm up the components, like the epmp has. On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 9:34 PM, Adam Moffett dmmoff...@gmail.com wrote: The danger you have to consider is a cold start, such as if the power was off for awhile. On 5/18/2015 10:32 PM,