From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1O7UMv-0006X3-22 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:05:33 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4F133E088F for ; Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:05:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail1.nippynetworks.com (mail1.nippynetworks.com [212.227.250.41]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8D80E072D for ; Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:51:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (mail1.nippynetworks.com [127.0.0.1]) by mail1.nippynetworks.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2168067519E for ; Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:51:20 +0100 (BST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at nippynetworks.com Received: from mail1.nippynetworks.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail1.nippynetworks.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id zf3qVe22zq0c for ; Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:51:19 +0100 (BST) Received: from Ed-Wildgooses-MacBook-Pro.local (office.nippynetworks.com [94.194.201.187]) (Authenticated sender: edward@wildgooses.com) by mail1.nippynetworks.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D9D4567443F for ; Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:51:19 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <4BD98ED7.3020200@wildgooses.com> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:51:19 +0100 From: Ed W User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.4 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] looking for a embedded platform with extended temperature range References: <1272487548.2968.370.camel@pr-laptop> In-Reply-To: <1272487548.2968.370.camel@pr-laptop> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: fde0ffe7-2810-4315-8996-5ecade669310 X-Archives-Hash: 2a949eb11261efd2b0c0863194493137 On 28/04/2010 21:45, Marcus Priesch wrote: > for the latter, gumstix look promising but i am a little unsure how they > perform ... and they only sell directly from the us. ... > Have you looked through all the routerboard range? The "Linux Devices" website is great for checking out what industrial boards are out there. Probably your needs are satisfied by some industrial solution? Note I would have thought min temp is not a problem. I would think that the main issues with cold are simply icing, frost, fans freezing and other mechanical things like HDs? Patrick who makes the Alix boards is very approachable - you could ask him what modifications are necessary to meet those targets? You would at least get an explanation of the practical issues? Also consider the cost of simply running the units out of operating spec and estimating failure costs over X years... Might be cheaper to buy twice as many and just let them fail? Good luck Ed W