An enclosure is a box to hold your electronic device.
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Are there any transparent enclosures or housing options out there for the Stellaris LaunchPad?
I come from an Arduino background, where there are a number of enclosures available for the standard board sizes.
We've just installed some software on a Stellaris LaunchPad at work, and we want to ...
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Does someone make a 7-segment or LCD display in an industrial enclosure that I can drive with RS232 or RS485? [closed]
I'm working on an industrial machine (factory automation) that has a nice PC-based control interface but it needs a secondary display of a couple lines of numbers.
Is there an off-the-shelf product ...
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Can a soapbox-sized device dissipate 10-15W of heat? If yes, how?
Some time ago, I built a soapbox-sized battery testing device. One of its functions was to discharge batteries at a specified current, and it handled most of the common battery sizes well, but its ...
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Weather protected enclosure
I'm planning to assemble x86-based computer equipment and place it outdoors, on the balcony, which has no protection from the elements, except for the concrete floor and roof. The temperatures here go ...
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Should I look for Aluminum or plastic enclosure for UPS
I am on the process of material selection for the UPS I am prototyping. My plan is to manufacture a product that should finally go to the market. I am relatively new to the manufacturing and I would ...
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Ideas for what to use as project enclosures/cases
I have seen myself working on a growing number of projects over the past few months. The one thing I have started to dislike is seeing the circuit board (and often my messy soldering) after I consider ...
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Designing electronics and their enclosures for the outdoors
I think the title captures it, but to expand upon this further. What are some of the best practices that you use to place electronics outdoors? Include what you do for the cases and mention issues ...
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Fabricating control panels
Electronic projects that aren't in a box are fragile. I have a project completing soon that has a reasonably complex control layout. It's going to need some manner of control panel that includes ...
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UK AC socket for mounting in enclosure
Where can I find a female AC power socket plate/panel and a male computer cable plate/panel which can be installed in an electronics enclosure? I am building a sousvide PID controller which will allow ...
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Thinest insulator between metal case and PCB?
For a miniature product, I want the smallest possible product enclosure around the PCB. I figure I can get away with a 1mm thick metal sheet enclosure.
But I (probably) also need an insulator between ...
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Determining Battery holder wiring?
I'm looking for a battery holder for 3-4 AA or AAA batteries in series (I'm targeting an output voltage of 4.5~6V).
I found a variety of options on Mouser, but the ...
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Do you need to UL Certified the enclosure with the board inside?
I want to use the RaspberryPI in an industrial environment that requires all devices have UL certification. The RaspberryPI board has UL certification but there is currently no enclosures that are ...
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Enclosure for electronic components
I'm building a small project and have some electronic (IC) boards I would like to pack in a nice enclosure.
I made an enclosure from PMMA (Acrylic) that looks nice but someone told me that it is not ...
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Standard case mounting hole interstitial distance
I bought a polycarb box to house a PCB I'm creating. IP65, marvellous. In in the corners inside the box are threaded stand-offs, but no documentation was supplied and running the product code through ...
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How to wire AC power to an integrated DPST switch?
I have an IEC C14 power connector (like those on PC power supplies). The connector has an integrated DPST switch, however the power pins are not connected directly to the switch-- I have to do that ...
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Fixing a transformer inside a metal case
I want to fix this transformer inside the case you see in the picture.
It doesn't matter if it lands on the bottom, walls or the ceiling of the case, I just want to learn how to fix an element like ...
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Repairing consumer electronic plastic enclosures [closed]
About the slightly brittle rigid black plastic usually used to house consumer electonics, e.g. a portable CD/MP3 radio player or a laptop computer. How to identify what kind of plastic it is? How to ...
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Good LCD for clean mounting in hobby project?
I'm refurbishing an old Kenwood amplifier--- removing the old faceplate and adding a board with a microcontroller, multiplexer IC, digital pot for volume control, IR receiver, etc.
I'm also ...
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How can I make an attractive enclosure for my circuit?
I have finished working on the circuit and firmware for my design of a MIDI controller. I'd now like to take it off the breadboard and put it inside some sort of enclosure. I can handle making the ...
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Designing a strong electronics holder
For a yearly running event at our university we have developed a lap counting system relying on Bluetooth-chips passing by small embedded computers. The chips are these. To power them, we use 4 AA ...
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Xbee Shield - Turning jumper settings into ON/OFF (XBEE/USB) manual switch
I have the following Xbee Shield where I need to constantly switch jumpers in order to allow Xbee communication and/or USB communication.
The following is set for Xbee communication:
"Xbee ...
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Where might I find a prefabricated enclosure for a PCB?
I'm working on a small electronics project that includes a micro-controller and a few extra items soldered down to a PCB. This project will need to be contained in a nice chassis/enclosure that can be ...
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Cheap method to drill neat holes in plastic casing?
A good deal of projects I see have their inputs and outputs neatly aligned in to plastic enclosures. I wish to do the same, however, I do not own a drill or anything similar.
What is a cheap but ...
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Standard enclosure sizes?
I am working on a project and have decided that I will design the PCB so that it fits a standard enclosure size, as was suggested here. All electronics websites sell some variety of enclosures, and ...
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What is the name of this common metal tubing?
I see tubing used all over the place in machines, but I do not know what it is called. The cross section looks somewhat like this drawn picture. Can someone clue me in on it?
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7 Segment Display - Hiding the electronics
I'm building a basic thermometer that displays the temperature on 4 seven segment LEDs. I want to put the circuit in a box with a clear plastic lid.
I'll mount the LEDs on the PCB around the other ...
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Custom Enclosure Design?
I have an odd sized PCB (about 0.8" x 14" x 5" ) that needs to be housed in data centers (rack mount.) It's a fairly expensive device so even though we won't have too many of them we're considering ...
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Custom enclosures
I need to produce a small batch (less than 100) of custom enclosures, each made up of 5-6 pieces of plastic. I need surfaces to look smooth and hard (think the quality of a computer keyboard) and one ...
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Plastic enclosure for small product
I have a small hw product and I would like to find a plastic enclosure company that do small runs.
Recommendations with experience please (i.e. not a simple Google Search result dump!)
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DIN rail enclosure for a Arduino + Ethernet shield
I am looking for a way to put a Arduino with an Ethernet shield inside a DIN rail enclosure while exposing the RJ45 and a few screw terminals.
Bare min: 55mm Width, 75mm length, 30mm height.
Looks ...
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