A couple more things. Make sure you mount it as shown in the picture. The frame is the heatsink and it needs to be properly oriented to cool properly. Make sure the box is high enough internally for that. The spec says its 123.7mm high, make sure the box can hold that.
The box must have ventilation holes directly over the frame so warm air goes up and out without having to bend around inside the box. These supplies can get pretty warm, you don't want them to cook. The transformers in these can vibrate at line frequency which for someone who is trying to get the absolute best out of a sound system is probably not a good thing. I would recommend either using rubber washers between the box and frame, or some double sided foam tape between them. (I personally use the double sided foam tape approach, it works very well) The material for the box is an interesting subject. A number of people like to use steel because of its magnetic shielding properties, but unfortunately most steels used for enclosures actually have lousy magnetic properties. This usually means you need fairly thick steel (not the common very thin sheet metal). My favorite material these days is thick aluminum. By thick I mean 1/4 inch or thicker. THICK aluminum actually has pretty good magnetic shielding characteristics (due to eddy currents) without the saturation problem of steel. Unfortunately its rather hard to find enclosures with 1/4" thick walls! (they actually do exist, but not dirt cheap or easy to find) Given you are going to buy it from a normal distributer I would go for a fairly thick wall steel one if you can find it. With lots of holes in the top. John S. -- JohnSwenson ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JohnSwenson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5974 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79977 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
