Stacking Your PCB in Plastic Electronic Enclosures
April 3rd, 2011You know that cabinet in your kitchen where your food containers are kept? You’ve got to have them for leftovers but with all the various sizes, depths, colors, it’s quite the chaotic space. And what do you do with the covers? I’ve finally tackled my own kitchen and cleaned up this area. I’ve found that if I can stack all of the enclosures together, and slide the covers neatly next to the bowls, then it’s no longer a chaotic mess. And I can breath freely when I open the door.
I got the idea to stack these containers from a recent customer email. The customer liked the size of the DC-45, but the project he was working on required 2 PCBs. The 2 boards were used to control different operations. The question: can he stack the 2 boards within the DC-45 without causing any issues?
The Key to the AG-85 Keyholes
March 28th, 2011I’ve been using the same coffee mug for quite some time. It’s a huge mug holding about 3 cups of coffee. I have a single-brew coffee maker. I never change the serving size, because I know that the largest serving will fill my favorite mug. When brewing a cup of coffee for anyone else, I have to remember to select the smaller sizes because the large serving will overflow the smaller mugs. Knowing what size will fit each serving size helps to avoid a mess.
Recently I was reminded of this while talking with a customer. He asked what size plate the AG-85 was created to fit. While I was intrigued to find that the keyholes were the perfect spacing to fit over a wall-jack for a phone, it was not a particularly useful finding since there are very few of these style phones remaining.
The A-B-S of Plastic Enclosures
March 9th, 2011We begin our exploration of plastic materials with one of the more common forms of plastic used in electronic enclosures, ABS. Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS) is typically the most economical of the materials used. This is because ABS is a strong, durable material but relatively inexpensive and easy to mold
Let’s take a look at the components.
Material Specifications of Plastic Electronic Enclosures
March 6th, 2011
For our anniversary my boyfriend got me a book on training my puppy. (I know the ladies are having a fit so I will say he did also get me a beautiful heart pendant with my birthstone, which I have not taken off since.) The book is important on many levels: it’s a how-to which will be extremely helpful to me and our home, and hopefully mean less destruction, pain, and suffering for all of us. It shows he was paying attention and looking for something that would suit my needs. Not that I don’t love roses, and as we know I’m addicted to Reese’s, but flowers and candy won’t last the week, whereas the book will last forever. More importantly, training my dog will have much greater long-term rewards. Both for his sake and mine, we’ll gain knowledge together.
Strength in Solidarity
February 13th, 2011Last year we had several weddings to attend that were out-of-town for us. Packing for an out-of-town wedding is difficult, more than just a regular vacation, because in addition to your vacation clothes you have to pack wedding clothes. And as any girl will tell you, that means several (read = MANY) pairs of stockings. Because invariably you will rip one pair right out of the package. And if you’re as coordinated and graceful (where is that sarcasm font?) as I am, you will likely bump into something and get a run before the first dance. And don’t get me started on wooden chairs or benches and their hole-inducing splinters. For those of you who don’t know: Once you get a run, it’s over. Somehow when the stockings are in one complete, tightly knit piece, they support each other. But once there’s a breach, the entire fortress falls.
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