Custom Features for Rack Mount System Enclosures
Electronic Enclosures, Inc. (EEi) has decades of expertise in design, fabrication, thermal dissipation, and EMI/RFI containment. Our focus here is on custom rack mount systems for most any industry. Our first involvement with RAID systems goes back to Micropolis and full-height 5¼ drives; copper and fiber switch to any number of ports to maximum chassis density; photonics up to PAM4; servers, long & short depth, blades to 4U; audio/video recording, editing and streaming. Many systems are considered – must not fail – “mission critical” with redundant hot-swap power and fans; redundant or N+1 electronics modules; card cages with backplanes. Our primary customers establish the performance requirements, produces the electronics, software/firmware, and test requirements. EEi jointly collaborates on engineering and manufacturing the resulting rack mount system enclosure.
We frequently build in hot-swap power supplies. These may be custom or COTS modules. CRPS supplies are used most frequently. We design, produce, and install a power distribution board, at times with additional rails.
Field replaceable electronics or FRUs for easy field upgradability and can be designed to nearly any sizes or configurations. They may plug into an interposer board or directly into a main board and are typically blind-mate and hot-pluggable.
This Joint collaboration at the onset of system development enormously benefits thermal dissipation results. In critical application hot-swap fan redundancy is used. EEi designs and manufacturers custom hot-swap fan assemblies.
Card cages can be designed into rack mount enclosures with plug-in cards in either a horizontal or vertical orientation with horizontal or vertical backplane or center-plane. Airflow is either horizontal or vertical based upon the plug-in card orientation. Most any bus structure can be accommodated; custom, VME, VPX, VXS, cPCI, ATCA, etc.
CRack mount chassis slide rails used on deeper enclosures typically require hardware and tools to install the system chassis into the rack. EEi had developed and refined a customizable rack mount chassis slide rail that requires neither, aka, tool-less slide rails. These rails are designed to “click” onto the side of its associated rack mount enclosure as well as “click” into the racks RETMA rails with the square hole pattern. It is fast and simple and just as easy to remove.