Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] home vs. industrial PC..

Jens Swales wrote:

>hi group
>
>a company asked me if i was interrested to build 8-10 copies of my
>homebuilt router for them, after have seen it. now, this machine is
>made of hq parts only and the heart of it, an industrial panel-pc is
>v-e-r-y expensive (it runs flashcut with the black-box). my problem
>is that the specs for this pc is a little to low, or on the border
>line to run flashcut v2.0. the fastest cpu available for this
>particular board is a 1.2 gig celeron. so, in order to take the full
>advance of fc, i now have 2 options:
>
>1. wait for a new upgrade/release of the industrial-pc (the complete
>unit costs around 2300$ today)
>
>so, my question to all of you is, can i sell my machines with a built-
>in standard pc, and still consider it a serious machine (the monitor
>and keyboard is industriual, though)
>
>

Well, I wouldn't use a home PC directly in a shop environment, especially a
WOOD shop! I made a custom box for my CNC machine. I put a standard
ATX motherboard in it, and a standard ATX power supply. But, I added
a large fan blowing INTO the box, with a filter at the inlet. The idea was
to have positive air pressure in the box, to keep the dirt out. You can
get as
fancy with the filter as you want, car air filters work pretty well.
You can do a little cabinetry for $1000 savings! Putting a standard video
monitor (or better, yet, an LCD monitor) in a closed cabinet should also
work.

Jon