Schroff Provide Embedded Systems For Harsh Environments

When located close to rotating machines or on commercial vehicles, these modular Schroff subracks are subjected to high levels of shock and vibration. For these areas of application, standard components such as strengthened side panels or robust horizontal rails with added fixing points are used; this increases the loading capacity of the subrack to 25g. If higher shock and vibration values are required, more ruggedized chassis variants are available offering up to 40g - Pentair offers a chassis that conforms to the Air Transportation Rack specification, for instance.

Particularly high levels of IP and EMC protection, as demanded in defence systems for example, can also be realized from the wide selection of standard components. Such systems, which are normally completely enclosed, have higher cooling requirements that are normally prescribed by the type of application. Here again, Pentair offers standard cooling solutions for different levels of ruggedness, from forced air cooling, through conduction cooling and cold plates, to water cooling for hot spots.

Additionally, all known bus technologies, including VMEbus, VXS, VPX, CompactPCI Plus IO, and CompactPCI Serial are supported and the appropriate, high-performance power supply units are integrated. From this wide portfolio of standard components, embedded systems can be configured or indeed modified to the customer's requirements and to the necessary level of ruggedness.