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Help, advice, opinions wanted! :)

As Ive said before I'm planning on following euricains schematic for the controlcab.

The physical planning is not as well thought out :D


Having the pc to the side like that.. good idea?
Can I mount just the base plate of the pc motherboard or is it a better idea to use entire pc chassis?
If it's okey with only baseplate will I need to get some kind of shielded mesh around the pc? Connected to star earth?

Same question about vfd? Okey to just have it there or does it need shielding?

All cables leaving the cab is cy..

The mains input will have two braces.
One with emi filter to vfd and one to all the psu:s
Thinking about dropping the 5v psu and use 5v from pc psu (raised this thought before)

The reason that I want to have everything clustered together is neatness and space saving. Also if I can avoid shielding and pc chassis I can have more centralised cooling and don't have to do separate cooling for pc..

Everything will be mounted on a steel backplate with metal sides (star earth connected)but maybe acrylic lid/front/door.. okey to do this?

Wouldn't have the VFD so close to the drives. I'd move all the Power in to same location as VFD and separate the BOB/Controller/Drives far away as possible.
Not fan of PC in the case because it's creating heat which kills drives etc but if you must then you really need think seriously about heat extraction.

To be honest unless you have exact dimensions then sketch like this never gives true picture so your better getting all the components together and lay them out on table and you'll quickly see best layout. Often it's little details like wire routing etc that lead you to best layout, you also soon see that you don't much space as you think you've got.!!