MOTM

A nice thing about the MOTM format is that I could use inexpensive Middle Atlantic standard 17.5" long rails mounted horizontally to hold the modules in a wooden frame with a 5U height. The mounting hole spacing is the same. I made my own homemade case this way by screwing the wooden frames into a larger wooden case at angles of choice. I have some .com and needed a 19" wide rack frame with the proper panel hole spacing for those. I also have a lot of Frac-rak modules that mount in dedicated Frac box frames mounted into 19" racks. For me, the 19" rack width is the common factor.


Good to see so many familiar names!  -Karl.



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From: 'John L Rice' Drummer@... [motm] <motm-noreply@yahoogroups.com>
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Sent: Tue, Jan 10, 2017 7:11 pm
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Like Abraham Ingle I’ve usually used 19” racks and I’ve combined MOTM and MU into the same case by using MOTM rails for one row and a MU frame on another row.
 
For a while my small 5U portable had one row of MOTM+Modcan B and one row of MU:
http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj304/JohnLRice/JLR_6360_zpswwt94slo.jpg
 
At one point I even had a  row of MOTM, a row of MU and a row of eurorack all in the same case and all on the same power supply since many of the Synth Tech eurorack  modules can run on +-15v and have both eurorack and MTA-156 power headers.
http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj304/JohnLRice/198_jlr_3948_1_1_zpsulvhlcvq.jpg
 
But I currently have everything separated/segregated into format specific cases. Here’s a current picture of the 5U with MU, MOTM and Modcan B all in separate cases:
http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj304/JohnLRice/198_jlr_mainmodular_1_zpsu3ziozmr.png
 
John L Rice
 

From: motm@yahoogroups.com [mailto:motm@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of William Hall wjhall@... [motm]
Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2017 2:57 PM
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Subject: Re: [motm] MOTM vs Moog panel grid

how do you physically reconcile having both formats in the same case?  Or do you h ave separate cases - one for each format?  Bill and Will