Hi They can be found at:
http://www.hammondmfg.com/index.htm Their die cast boxes are the ones I normally like to use. Very rugged and well made. Bob On Jun 13, 2007, at 7:16 PM, Jingshao Chen wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
