200e

- eric's 3 boats are identical to the ones you'd find in a 12p cabinet; so,
1 boat has the power supplies, the others are connected with cables that
include power and data busses. if i remember right, we also put some extra
holes in the sheet metal and bolted the boats together...(??)

- there is individual pricing on the powered boats (every system must have
1) and the passive distributor boats. you could have 3 or 4 distributors in
theory, although i think more than 2 would make patching kind of
inconvenient.

- pricing for powered boats is on the website. i can't remember the price of
the passive boats; maybe the website will receive an update soon.

- last time i checked, the rack ears were a free option when you bought a
boat. this is probably "while supplies last." and maybe "this offer is
subject to change."

- a single data bus is capable of handling traffic between 20 or so modules
before things get too noisy.

i'd like people to know that 200e rack enclosures are a perfectly good
option. they're somewhat cheaper, less work to assemble, and can be
modularized down to units of 4 panels, which is a size i find myself
travelling with all the time these days...

eb

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 6:57 PM, zaum <zaum@optonline.net> wrote:

>   Can or are the separate boats in the SKB case bus connected to each
> other?
>
> I've got some case questions in general --
>
> First a simple one, how much do a pair of rack ears run for one 4
> module boat?
>
> I also heard of some kind of an arrangement with Buchla and
> Associates regarding boat/cabinet trade-ins if for instance you want
> to expand into something larger?
>
> Or maybe what I thought I heard just had something to do with earlier
> cases with build problems.
>
> Possibly answered by the first question -- say you have 2 cabinets
> and or multiple boats. Are all, some or none of the possible
> combinations connectable in terms of the bus system.
>
> -nick kent
>
>  
>


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