Hi Take a look at Hammond Industries cases. A lot of places sell them including DigiKey. They seem to be a little better made than the ones from Bud.
If you are going for more than a few hundred cases then custom begins to make sense. Bob Camp On Jun 13, 2007, at 5:10 AM, ranjith wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for the answers. > Well actually we figured out that it would be better to use a ready > made > casing for our requirement and not a custom built one...We would > probably look for enclosures on budind.com for that..anyway we > would be > going in for metallic casing..so all your answers would help. > > Thanks > Ranjith > > nicodache wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'd add that on some "commecial" motherboard (asus, msi, etc), not >> all >> the mouting holes are connected together, I've heard about >> motherboard >> that died of surge problems with some mouting holes unused. >> However, I >> don't know how the mouting holes are on soekris hardware. >> >> anyway, if you make yourself a case, you might think of using >> standard >> mouting brassed screws/spacers, and in that case, you won't have this >> kind of problems >> >> (and if you make yourself a case, would you mind share your case >> plans >> with us ?) >> >> On 6/13/07, Poul-Henning Kamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >>> Ranjith writes: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> We have purchased Net4826-50 board and case from Soekris. We >>>> would be >>>> mounting the board in another custom built casing. >>>> Please guide as to whether we can either use metallic or non- >>>> metallic >>>> mounting plate for the same? Would the choice of the mounting plate >>>> material really matter? >>>> >>> Depends what exactly you are doing with it, it's hard to give >>> blanket advice about something like that. >>> >>> You need to decide up front if you want your (presumably) metalic >>> enclosure to have electrical connection to the GND potential of >>> the 4826. >>> >>> Choosing that this should _not_ be the case puts your soekris >>> at a healthy danger because it will have to take all static >>> electricity spikes on its own, whereas if you keep a common >>> reference potenential for the entire enclosure the box will >>> usually take the hit. >>> >>> Having decided what to do about your reference potential, you need >>> to figure out how to do it. A metalic mounting plate with metalic >>> spacers is normally an OK reference connection, if you use isolating >>> spacers or isolated mounting plate, you would need to add a wire >>> from one of the mounting holes on the soekris to your reference >>> potential. >>> >>> -- >>> Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 >>> FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe >>> Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by >>> incompetence. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Soekris-tech mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Soekris-tech mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech >> > > > -- > > > _____________________________________________________________ > > Thanks & Regards > Ranjith > > Amrita Research Labs > Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham > Amritapuri P.O > Kollam, Kerala - 690525 > > Ph:0476-2896318/2896328 > Extn: 4102 > > http://arl.amrita.edu > > _______________________________________________ > Soekris-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech > _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
