I could go either way. 4x4 for 16 or 6x3 for 18. More ports is always
cool. I guess whatever makes the most sense to you would be fine with me.
This really comes down to being able to power just about anything
imaginable... except for Trango's crazy licensed POE scheme, power
consumption and -48. Which is fine, I'll do something else for those.
I can make use of the 12-port DIN mount at many sites. And this rack
mount for the bigger sites is icing on the cake. This will let me get
rid of all the fuses and really simplify the wiring. So I'm in.
Are you planning for this to be a SiteMonitor + SyncInjector in the same
chassis all integrated? An expansion bus would definitely be needed.
Unless you're designing this more like the stand-alone generator
controller....?
On 3/8/2016 1:40 PM, Forrest Christian (List Account) wrote:
Well, it looks like it might actually be finally happening.
We are about 98% sure we have a rackmount enclosure manufacturer which
we can work with. Domestic. Product looks decent. Price is right.
Which means it's time to nail down a few details here, such as number
of ports, so I can get some enclosures cut and boards made and
hopefully get this elephant out of the room....
So I need some input:
The rough figures I'm working with here is $800 for a 18 port
rackmount power injector. Voltage and pinning jumper selectable per
port. Per-port control of power and sync. Probably some redundant
power and other things built in, but I'm still nailing those details
down (a lot of it comes down to space on the front panel of the
enclosure).
PLEASE NOTE: The prices here are soft - until I get the design
completed I won't know what I can sell this for - as many of you know
I try to price things at a fair price as opposed to what the market
will bear.
The main questions I have for the list are:
Is 18 the correct number of ports? 18 is looking like about the most
I can fit based on front panel dimensions. This corresponds to 3
blocks of 6 ports (if you lose a port and need to replace it, you'd
replace 6 at a time).
Other options are 16 (4 blocks of 4), and pretty much any smaller
quantities of ports which are divisible by 4 or 6.
I guess what I'm really asking here is whether the 18 port version for
$800 is the only version of this I should make or carry, or does it
make sense to sell (as an example) an 8 port version for $400 instead
of or in addition to this?
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