Enclosure is made for wall and bulkhead mounting: News from Chassis Plans

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New from Chassis Plans is the W5Chassis family of rugged wall-mount and bulkhead-mount industrial PC computer enclosures. The W5Chassis is unique in the market, offering an ATX computer enclosure designed exclusively for wall and bulkhead mounting. Other wall-mount computers are simply reworked desktop or rack mount designs.

The W5Chassis is a clean paper design with no compromises in functionality.

The W5Chassis is perfect for a wide variety of applications where an office style computer does not provide appropriate protection and a 19in rack is not available.

The W5Chassis can be hung exposed on a wall in a factory, in a closet such as a security system, mounted on a drilling rig, and so forth.

When the door is closed, it does not look like a computer which has high appeal for theft and vandalism mitigation.

A lockable door protects the installed components from prying hands.

The door is sealed with fabric covered EMI gasket for both EMI and environmental sealing.

The high quality locking compression latch sets the EMI gasket when the door is closed.

Accessible behind the door is the power and reset switches as well as the power-on and drive activity LEDs.

A top cover protects the I/O cables and is interlocked with the door to prevent unauthorised access to the wiring.

Conduit knockouts are provided on both sides.

The W5Chassis is designed for harsh environments and includes four 1400 litre/min fans for cooling.

The fans are mounted in hot swap carriers for easy field service.

An optional fan monitoring board is available.

A large air filter is mounted on the exterior bottom of the enclosure for easy cleaning.

Access to the locked interior is not required for cleaning the filter.

The W5Chassis system is optimised for a variety of customer specified options, including in-door LCD control panels and displays up to 17in 1280 x 1024 in a vertical orientation.

Customer specified paint, logo and silk screening are available for private labelling.

'Working with key customers in the offshore oil exploration industry, Chassis Plans was able to engineer and manufacture a very rugged system for use in harsh environments', said David Lippincott, Founder and Chief Technologist of Chassis Plans.

'Hurricane Katrina slammed the offshore drilling rigs and Chassis Plans' wall mount enclosures were some of the few pieces of equipment to survive'.

The W5Chassis offers a unique blend of versatility and installed component protection in a low cost wall mount system.

The W5Chassis is in production.

OEM and quantity discounts are available.

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Enclosure is made for wall and bulkhead mounting

The W5Chassis is a novel ATX computer enclosure designed exclusively for wall and bulkhead mounting.