Without speaker protection, there is always danger of damaging the connected speakers, with high voltage peaks that happen when turning on / off the power for the amplifier (mostly can hear a loud click). This service turns the speakers on after starting / resuming and turns the speakers off before suspending. The speaker protection is controlled with a Windows-service I wrote. I didn’t want to use the existing eject button, because it was too small and would somehow break the design of the case.įor the speaker protection I used a relay-board from a Bulgarian company Denkovi, which I found on eBay ( ). The mounting of the slot-in Blu-Ray drive was one of the hardest parts, because I had to re-solder the connection for eject button on a flexible printed circuit board which was very small. The plexiglas for the front panel display and the IR-receiver was I glued with silicone. I mounted the board and the sockets for the speakers at the rear panel. Some parts were still to file, because I forgot some notches in the self-carrying barrier (nobody is perfect ) – you can see them on the first two pictures. One week after my order, I received my parts and started with the setup of the case. 5” LCD TFT module 16:9 (848x480) ( Dalian Good Display Co., Ltd. Sure Electronics 2x100W 4Ω TK2050 Class D amplifier ( ) Atric IR receiver ( ) / CIR2-01 ( - Cine S2 V6 DVBS Card ( ) 16 GB (2x8) DDR3 DIMM (time-shift on ram-disk!) GeminII M4 low profile fan (CoolerMaster)
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The rest I measured with a caliper from existing PC cases.
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Most dimensions for the micro-ATX board I took out of the ATX specification that is free available on the internet. Especially the placement of some of the threads inside the case for the amplifier and the relay-board were not 100% clear, therefore I made them with a tap and die set. Some of the parts I did with my own tools.
Milling of the Plexiglas was again made by Schaffer-AG, because the also provide their services for custom materials. Despite of the name of the software, it is possible to design rear panels with itįor the front display plexiglas I ordered some samples from Evonik Industries ( ) to find one that was not too dark. They offer production services for milling/drilling front panels for business and home users.
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Most of the parts I constructed with the front panel design software from a German company called “Schaeffer-AG” ( or for international customers). It wasn't just the idea of designing a HTPC case but to design a MediaPortal case. Some were very flat, but their depth was always more than 330mm.Īt that point I decided to construct a case by myself.
There were a lot of cases but none of them was able to cover all my needs. Well I searched for 2 months and found nothing. The self-made wooden shelf in my living room that I had built around the Fujitsu Activy had a depth of 350mm and the available height for the media center was 110mm.Īs the current media center stood really on the edge of the shelf, I decided to search for a low profile case that had a depth of 330mm and maximum height of 100mm. Then I started to look for a case and that’s where my problems began. It should also contain a digital amplifier to be able to drive 2 stereo speakers. After some search in the Web, I decided to setup a custom media center with MediaPortal. After 8 years with my old Media Center PC – a Siemens Fujisu Activy 350 - it was time for something new.
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