Analog rack backplane idea?

[Chris Crosskey]

HI Folks, 
    Buck wrote....
    
>I don't have the address handy (happy to get it for anyone who wants it!)
>but Schroff Inc. makes a complete enclosure system that takes care of all
>backplane/cabinet/enclosure needs and is perfect for they synth DIY'er.
>The stuff is absolutely beautiful (in the eye of this beholder) with tons
>of different panel types, enclosures, card cages, etc.  For all their stuff
>you can buy proto-type (vector style) boards that mate perfectly with their
>backplanes, cardcages and slide in modules.  It's all eurocard standard stuff.
>

I can verify this, we use tons of Schroff stuff at work for our 100 K UKP 3D 
motion analysis tools and it is seriously good. Very tough stuff, massive range 
of mostly standardised sized cases, and an easy roadmap to go from an 
experimental rig (it would be easy to have a small subrack for testing etc and a 
bigger nicer, <let the public see it> case for built things and all the  front 
panels would be guranteed to work together....I believe that Doepfer are using 
Schroff cases, though I stand to be corrected...

>The problem is cost.  I'm using their basic "Eurolab" style subrack with
>their standard panels and enclosed panels (for those modules you want
>shielded) and that stuff is *reletively* affordable.  But as soon as you
>start using all their backplane goodies, the cost shoots through the roof
>(I decided I don't need a backplane *that* bad).
>

Yeah, the price can be a bit fierce, though with the p[ound at 2.9 DM it isn't 
as bad as it was....


If anyone needs a UK address I'll dig it out for them..

chrisc