Outdoor Units (ODU) Assembly Part 1
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The outdoor assembly project, using the new outdoor enclosure, is moving along. After testing out the MeshAP Software and Hardware I am now ready to begin assembling the MeshAP with the Outdoor enclosure.
I allow 0.25 inch spacing between the power supply and mother board. I also ensured that the unit was offset with space for the power cord and other plugs.
With the non metallic backing plate of the enclosure I have mounted the mother board and the the ATX power supply. The power supply was mounted using self tamping screws. I noticed the model of ATX I have has a fan. There are no mounting holes where I want to install the unit to the backing plate. I use the area with fan and drill four holes.
On the backing plate I mounted the mother board with hex risers and with riser hex screws. These were purchased a electronics shop. The spacer have a tamper on both ends.
The size of the riser was 0.5 inch.
Once the power supply and the motherboard board where mounted I installed the radio card again and plug it in to see if it still worked.
The next assembly was to attach the radio card permanently to the motherboard and the backing plate. I notice in my first attempts at ODU that, with out a backing plate, I simply plug the radio card in to the motherboard. There has been numerous time that the vibration due to wind has loosen the PCI radio card adapter.
To mount it I used a wire that fit through the hole of the adapter, and drilled two hole directly below the hole in the adapter. I then threaded a wire between the whole in the back plate and then through radio card adapter. I twisted the wire firmly so that there wasn't any movement in the radio card. Warning if you twist the wire too firmly you may break the radio card adapter. I use this method because sometime I need to replace the radio card. It is not eloquent but it works!
The outdoor assembly project, using the new outdoor enclosure, is moving along. After testing out the MeshAP Software and Hardware I am now ready to begin assembling the MeshAP with the Outdoor enclosure.
I allow 0.25 inch spacing between the power supply and mother board. I also ensured that the unit was offset with space for the power cord and other plugs.
With the non metallic backing plate of the enclosure I have mounted the mother board and the the ATX power supply. The power supply was mounted using self tamping screws. I noticed the model of ATX I have has a fan. There are no mounting holes where I want to install the unit to the backing plate. I use the area with fan and drill four holes.
On the backing plate I mounted the mother board with hex risers and with riser hex screws. These were purchased a electronics shop. The spacer have a tamper on both ends.
The size of the riser was 0.5 inch.
Once the power supply and the motherboard board where mounted I installed the radio card again and plug it in to see if it still worked.
The next assembly was to attach the radio card permanently to the motherboard and the backing plate. I notice in my first attempts at ODU that, with out a backing plate, I simply plug the radio card in to the motherboard. There has been numerous time that the vibration due to wind has loosen the PCI radio card adapter.
To mount it I used a wire that fit through the hole of the adapter, and drilled two hole directly below the hole in the adapter. I then threaded a wire between the whole in the back plate and then through radio card adapter. I twisted the wire firmly so that there wasn't any movement in the radio card. Warning if you twist the wire too firmly you may break the radio card adapter. I use this method because sometime I need to replace the radio card. It is not eloquent but it works!
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