Hardware Talk :: Fanless, Ventless case

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One of the choices I was looking at, that is also available almost everywhere, is one of those small lock-boxes.

Very clever. Never thought of that.

Example -- 11" W x 7-3/4" D x 4" H painted steel box with lock. US$10.99 Office Max box

hmm, maybe too thick to work on though.
not sure about drilling holes into one of those?
maybe just cut a slot and just bend the side in?

Quote (humpty @ June 05 2006,23:13)

hmm, maybe too thick to work on though.
not sure about drilling holes into one of those?
maybe just cut a slot and just bend the side in?

Well, it's going to be durable, that's for sure.
You can work with anything with the right tools. If you don't have a rotory tool, then one way to do it is to drill holes where the ports need to show and use a file to shape them.
You can use Dupont 5300 to seal around them afterwards. They will never be totally sealed however because the port connectors themselves have holes that go straight through to the motherboard. The solution to that would be to use a DFI EBX board, which doesn't use a standard port block. Instead the EBX boards have the port connectors all on cables that plug into the motherboard. You could fashion your own port panel inside the box to secure the ports and then make smaller holes through the box to run cables to connect to them. The smaller holes could then be completely sealed around the cables.
I'm going to make one similar to this with a lunchbox when I get some free time.

I think i stumbled across what you were orignaly looking for.->
http://www.visson.com.tw/en/products/applied%20computing/iceman.jsp

Yes, that is VERY much what I was looking for. Too bad I just received my VoomPC cast last night.

They don't appear to have an office in the US, but I'll drop them a line, and report back here if I hear back from them.

As a side note, the VoomPC case is very hefty. I was surprised at how beefy the aluminum casting was, as well as the steel bottom plate. Extremely tough unit I suspect- the heft is unusual in today's world of plastic cases. The included fan is cheap and noisy, as is the one on the C7 from Phylon, but I'll find a way to silence them.

Thank you-

Zeph

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