This 3U CompactPCI ® Conduction Cooled Chassis comes complete with a 5 slot backplane, 180 Watt Modular PS with 12-36VDC and external AC input adapter. The 5 slot backplane will accommodate the Modular PS, a 2 slot width CPU card or 1 slot width CPU card with a SATA HDD carrier, and 4 add-on cards. CompactPCI Express Type 3 and CompactPCI backplanes with Rear I/O are available. PCI Systems unique Compact PCI Express Type 3 backplane has the same full rear I/O capability as CompactPCI with PCI Express 4x lanes of bandwidth. Rear I/O transition modules are standard. The rear panel can be easily customized to adapt to your rugged application. This chassis may be easily customized for fewer slots to reduce width and the rear I/O may be modified to reduce depth for special applications.

The chassis is manufactured from aluminum to guarantee maximum ruggedness at minimum weight. Power dissipation of the installed boards and power supply is by conduction cooling through the walls of the chassis and cooling fins. The chassis can then be externally air cooled or mounted to a larger external chassis as a heat sink. Boards are fixed in place with wedge locks to insure good heat conduction to the chassis and vibration control.

This is an ideal solution as a hardware/software development platform and can be easily upgraded for full rugged projects.

Chassis with Front Panel removed
(Shown Left to Right: 1x PS, 4x PMC/XMC Carriers, 1x SBC, 1x Solid State Drive)

cPCI Express Type 3 Backplane – Front View

cPCI Express Power Supply - Top View w/ Top Heatsink removed

Rear Transition I/O Module

Chassis with Rear Panel removed
(Rear Transition I/O Module shown)

Chassis with rear I/O Mil-Connectors option

Ordering

Backplane options

Spares

Download 3U Conduction Cooled Enclosure datasheet.pdf