Systel Advantages

All Systel designed chassis employ numerous "formed up areas", typically known as “Bridges”, and are used as tie-down points for internal wiring and for securing cable assemblies. Most commonly used adhesive backed tie wrap holders have a tendency of coming undone over time, causing the cable to become lose inside the chassis. Under shock and vibration conditions, the unfastened cable may rub against metallic parts causing wear of the insulation. Hence, it is always preferable to have tie-downs utilizing bridges. Additionally these bridges form a repeatable path for consistent wiring from one machine to the next.

All drives, passive backplanes and some motherboards are shock mounted to the chassis. Regardless of industry opinion, years of testing have proven that proper shock mounting of critical components is necessary to survive harsh environments. Years of experience with mission critical designs, has allowed us to make this a hallmark trait of Systel “Extreme Industrial Products”.

All add-in boards and some memory modules are secured through the use of hold down bars and clamps. Clamps utilize special designed grommets for proper stabilization of boards as well as the memory modules. When able, Systel designs employ dual hold down bars to allow securing of full-length boards and provide a secondary role as chassis stiffeners. All clamps are secured using locking nuts or allen screws.

All Systel designs incorporate positive pressure ventilation using ball bearing fans. The quantity of fans and size are determined according to the chassis volume and loading of the system with plug in cards and maximum configuration. Temperature testing is performed at 50C for a minimum of 24 hours with a maximum load as part of the qualification process. Reusable filters prevent dirt build up on internal components. Systel’s chassis have greater air flow than most industrial chassis, which allows better performance under extreme industrial applications.

Systel routinely uses electrical Grade RTV (Room Temperature Vulcanizing) silicone on vibration sensitive components and connectors found on system boards, drives, and power supplies. This reduces the adverse effect of shock and vibration and increases long term reliability. This process can be found exclusively in a Systel “Extreme Industrial Computer”.

Prior to final test, all Systel computers go through a 24- hour computer controlled burn in period at 50 degrees Celsius with full diagnostics to weed out infant mortality. It has been proven that any marginal electronic components will probably fail under accelerated conditions, thus increasing the probability of finding weak or marginal components. Any failed components are replaced and the test repeated until a pass is accomplished. Results of the burn in test and any failures are recorded and kept with the machine’s permanent records.

To ensure that all Systel products arrive in perfect condition to our customers, our engineers have designed packaging using fitted foam inserts with either a heavy single or double wall cardboard container. Our packaging designs and testing are the final step to delivering your high performance trouble free product.