>>> No aluminum cases in business installs please, > He might have a point, though. Proper grounding and a case able > to magnetically shield things (such as iron) can make all the > difference between the electronics surviving or not.
Direct lightning strike to will kill electric equipment anyway, put it in steel, aluminium case or wooden box. No difference. Sorry. Some of net5501 instabilities are related with case bad thermal design. If you have a choice - aluminium case (which can melt with strike :-) ) with better cooling characteristics or steel case (which can melt too, but simply at 1400 C, twice of aluminium melting temperature), but makes your equipment unstable due to cooling issues, then which case you prefer? How probable is direct lightning hit, which can make equipment case melt? Steel cases are cheaper, so maybe this is Soekris decision thriving force, i don't know. -- =<Alvar>= _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
