[Soekris] 19" Rackmount Case for the 5501

[Darrick Hartman (lists)]

K K wrote:
> On 6/4/08, Carlos Castro <carlos.castro at cox.com> wrote:
>> Does anyone know of a 3rd party vendor who might have a 19" rack mount case
>> for the net5501 boards?
> 
> We bought the Kerberos.si 19" rack case, the one shown at https://kd85.com/
> 
> The case works great, is sturdier and more professional than the
> standard lime sherbert colored case.  I've never liked the barrel
> connector for power, with this case the external power connection is a
> standard 2-pin laptop power cable.
> 
> My only real complaint about all the cases (Soekris and 3rd party) is,
> none make the CF externally accessible, nor are trivially modifiable
> (e.g. with a nibbler) to expose the card.

You could always get good with a dremel tool ;)  I've done some 
modifications to the original case to get certain pci cards to fit (the 
Rhino 8 port analog card pairs up nicely but requires two cuts with the 
dremel to fit right)

Darrick
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