Elma’s Enclosures with Style

Black and white is often a harbinger of “style”. One of the greatest social events of the last century was Truman Capote’s legendary 1966 Black and White Ball at New York’s Plaza Hotel. Contemporary home interiors often combine black and white with sleek metals.

So, why not black and white computer enclosures? Or colorful ones, for that matter?

Indeed, Elma Electronic (News - Alert) (www.elma.com) the great global maker of electronic packaging products, has upgraded its popular Type 15 StyleBox enclosure with several key features, among them more more colors, a new handle assembly, 51 different sizes, and a flexible design allowing it to convert to a portable tower.

The StyleBox’ new handle design comes in three parts — a top and bottom that attach to the enclosure, and a centerpiece offered in heights from 1U to 7U. The handle pieces come in white, silver, or custom colors (they can be mixed-and-matched for more color combinations). Standard sizes of the new Type 15 enclosure range from 2U to 7U high and widths of 42 HP, 63 HP, and 84 HP. With depths in 245 mm, 305 mm, 395 mm, or 500 mm, many size configurations are possible, or you can customize. The enclosure’s front can also optionally be recessed by 60 mm with reduction kits, which provides space for protecting electrical or optical connectors – and can be provided with or without a perforated air-intake panel or a solid panel. The Type 15 also includes a push-on extrusion that saves manufacturing and assembly steps, and hole locations allow the unit to have mounting feet and a top handle installed. Rotated by 90 degrees and feet/handle installed, the enclosure becomes a portable tower. The enclosure configurations include 19-inch rackmount with/without handles, desktop with/without handles, portable case (horizontal orientation), and portable tower (vertical orientation).

Richard Grigonis (News - Alert) is Executive Editor of TMC’s IP Communications Group.

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