Cases for Catalyst Systems

[bright]

Thanks for that. Quite impressive and huge ;-)

Keep the ideas comming. Anybody else with nice case ideas for the servers?

[Woodj32177]

On a side note,
I have a Mac Pro in a old High End style case, and it runs just fine on its side.
I believe the computers you were not supposted to run on their side was the Quad 2.5Ghz G5's.
They were liquid cooled, and would leak if turned on their side.

Joshua Wood

[SourceChild]

Gian's cases are impressive.

I am designing a new case with a very small footprint.
The case is large enough for the Mac Pro but on the side of the case I am mounting very small rack mount displays.

For me it is very important to have a small footprint because I usually try to get the roadcase on the airplane with me when I fly to a show.

If you are interested in some of the design ideas I've come up with, contact me.

I'm in Austin, TX ( 5 1 2 ) 4 2 6 - 4 0 0 4

[RedLightning]

I have two built for me by ECM in Toronto Ontario. I will post pictures asap

-s

[bright]

Thanks for both replies. I would be very interested to see the sollutions of both of you :-)

TODD: I really would apreciate if you would share your ideas. My email is t.giegerich (at) bright.de

[SourceChild]

I really would appreciate if you would share your ideas.

I made a few changes and I have been busy working on another project. I will be in touch with you soon once I have ironed out my ideas.

Basically, I am trying to design a roadcase that has a 2' x 2' x 2' cube footprint.

Simon made a comment about "easy to troubleshoot." So I thought more and changed my ideas.

The idea I had was to have an 8-core Mac Pro, 2 TH2G (for 6 outputs), 2 Marshal 3 screen rack LCD, and an easy access port for getting to the VDAs, and converters.

I am still debating on the output signal

• 6 5-wire BNC ports
• 6 DVI Ports
• 6 RJ-45 with internal DVI over ethernet Extenders
• 6 SDI outputs wih 6 internal DVI to SDI converters

The problem is that different people have different capabilities. I prefer using SDI since many projectors have SDI inputs but as a secondary I would prefer DVI and use ethernet extenders.

I am even considering a KVM solution rack with built in 15" Monitors, keyboard and mouse.

Obviously the more devices in the signal path the greater the potential for failure but if I can enhance the efficiency of a system, it is tremendous in value.

This is a subject I would encourage a great deal of feedback on.