Hi Bob, Do you have a link to Hammond Industries?
Thanks, Jingshao On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 07:33:39AM -0400, Bob Camp wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
