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Standard Rugged PC/104 Enclosure
MEC-2050

Features:

Enclosure for Duraptor™ systems
Material: T6061 extruded aluminum alloy
Removable aluminum PC/104 card cage, three lengths available
Standard system supports 5,8 or 11 PC/104 boards
Internal shock and vibration isolation
Extrusion integrates groove securing flanged baseplate
Quick and easy assembly, no stand-offs needed
12,5mm clearance around card cage for cabling
EMI gasket with NEMA 4X protection
Various custom lengths available - projects only

Application Areas:

Aircrafts and helicopters
Military vehicles - AMVs
Artillery and other weapon systems
Train and tram systems
Logistics and materials handling
Communications controllers
Vehicle data loggers

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General Description:

The DuraChassis™ extruded aluminum PC/104 enclosure is one of these most rugged PC/104 chassis on the market. Made of lightweight, clear-anodized tempered aluminum, this revolutionary enclosure system is the first of its kind to integrate a removable railed card cage subassembly designed for shock mitigation and simple card removal.

Delivering the industry's highest level of PC/104 system serviceability, the DuraChassis™ greatly simplifies field retrofits, reconfigurations, and upgrades. Its design also completely eliminates the need for traditional standoffs/spacers and provides a much simpler board removal method that other PC/104 containers on the market. Up to 5,8 or 11 PC/104 cards can be securely held in the card cage, receiving four solid points of attachment by the rails, while allowing complete access to any PC/104 module in the card stack by simply removing four bolts.

The chassis also provides a very high degree of protection against damaging shock and vibration energies common to mobile, airborne, shipboard, and other demanding embedded PC/104 environments. Silastic® silicone shock absorbers attached to the perimeter of its railed card cage effectively reduce G-Loads felt by a PC/104 system in three dimensions by up to a factor of ten. These specially designed shock absorbers are field tested to meet stringent MIL-STD requirements.

The DuraChassis™ comes with NEMA-rated end caps to provide protection against dust, splashing water and other environmental conditions. The end caps have a lip that fits around the extrusion end to improve the environmental seal and enable gasketing to achieve a NEMA 4X rated protection. Endcaps come blank, ready to add desired application connector holes.

The bottom of the DuraChassis extrusion incorporates dovetailed grooves designed to mate with the aluminum baseplate for flange mounting it to a wall, bulkhead or other fixture. The inside of the extrusion integrates heatsinking grooves along two internal walls for convective cooling, increasing surface area and dissipating heat away from a PC/104 system.