Rugged Rackmount 1U LCD Touchscreen Monitor and Keyboard Tray

Author: Laura Biddiscombe

Rugged computers are a necessity when you need both performance and reliability in harsh environments. This is one of the reasons why Trenton Systems has retained in-house electronic, mechanical and system BIOS engineering expertise to create board-level products and integrated computer systems designed for challenging environments.

Every military computer they integrate provides the performance, space-savings, flexibility and long-term system configuration stability necessary for airborne, shipboard, undersea and ground vehicle deployment, or applications located within command and control centres.

The TKM1503 rackmount LCD touchscreen monitor from Trenton Systems features a rugged NEMA 4 sealed 17″ LCD display with a resistive touchscreen. The aluminium 1U rackmount LCD touchscreen monitor and keyboard tray provide a backlit NEMA 4X keyboard for Mil-Spec touchscreen LCD touchscreen monitor applications. The rugged 1U monitor / keyboard tray saves rackmount component mounting space, fitting inside 19″ racks with depth dimensions from 17″ to 36″.

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The TKM1503′s clamshell enclosure design allows additional rackmount component placement to maximise the use of limited mounting space. The sealed 17″ LCD display with resistive LCD touchscreen supports SXGA screen resolutions and over 16 million monitor colors.

Key features of the TKM1503 rackmount LCD touchscreen monitor include:

• Mil-COTS rackmount LCD touchscreen monitor & sealed keyboard
• Shallow 17″ (43.18cm) depth is ideal for transit case applications
• Watertight NEMA 4 optically bonded 17″ LCD touchscreen monitor
• Sealed 17″ LCD display with resistive touchscreen supports SXGA resolutions
• Includes NEMA 4X backlit keyboard with built-in mouse
• Integrated keyboard and mouse simplifies hardware mounting and cable routing
• Fits inside 19″ racks with depth dimensions from 17″ to 36″ (43.2cm – 91.4cm)
• Rugged, yet lightweight all-aluminium 1U rackmount enclosure design

The TKM1503 rackmount LCD touchscreen monitor is compatible with all of Trenton's rackmount computers, and is supported by Trenton’s unsurpassed US-based technical support, including their industry-leading 5 year warranty.

For more information please contact the team at Sarsen Technology on +44 1672 511166, or send us an email with your request.

It's Automotive April at Sarsen Technology!

Welcome back, we hope you enjoyed the extended break and had a great Easter.

This month on the Sarsen Technology blog it’s Automotive April. Every week we will be bringing you news and information from our manufacturers, with a spotlight on the automotive industry in particular.

The term automotive was created from Greek autos (self), and Latin motivus (of motion) to represent any form of self-powered vehicle.

Example: Self-Powered Vehicles

The automotive industry began in the 1890s, with hundreds of manufacturers pioneering the horseless carriage. The United States led the world in total automobile production. In 1929 before the Great Depression, the world had 32,028,500 automobiles in use, and the U.S. automobile industry produced over 90% of them.

From ULVs to F1, and from robots to the car you’re driving today, every single one has been made using data acquisition systems, buckets of I/O, control and monitoring equipment, and sophisticated, reliable hardware solutions. We know quite a lot about this stuff……

We know all about control and monitoring applications.......!

We’ve been involved in a big range of automotive applications, including engine monitoring and control hardware for city buses, I/O hardware for control and monitoring of simulators, noise, vibration and harshness (NVH) testing and Unmanned Land Vehicle (ULV) control.

 

Noise, Vibration and Harshness Testing.......

Keep an eye out for more stories on the blog, as well as regular updates on Twitter and LinkedIn!

It's Medical March!

So we've had Green January and Financial February.... Now it's Medical March! We'll be bringing you all the coolest tech available from Sarsen, as well as application stories and innovations from this market sector.

Pretty exciting stuff I know!

Many of our manufacturers have products that are specifically designed with medical applications in mind. There are many factors that designers need to take into consideration when designing an embedded system for medical use, and one of the most important is long term availability. Once a product is designed in, and has undergone rigorous testing and approval processes, it could be in production or need support for upwards of 10 years.

 

VersaLogic Corp design a range of embedded computer products with guaranteed long term availability, as well as offering product life-cycle management to help eliminate product redesigns.

The Falcon EPU module from VersaLogic is an extremely small and rugged embedded computer, which been engineered and tested to meet the Medical industrys evolving requirements to develop smaller, lighter, and lower power embedded systems while adhering to stringent regulatory standards.

It's one of the smallest boards on the market, around the size of a credit card, and it's less than 1" thick so it is a great option for space constrained high reliability applications in the medical sector.

VL-EPU-2610 'Falcon' from VersaLogic

For more information get in touch with the sales team here at Sarsen. You can call the office on +44 1672 511166, or drop us an email - info@sarsen.net.

Conduant's 'Big River NTX16' in the Sarsen Spotlight

This week we're sharing all our trade secrets about the Big River NTX16 PCI Express Recorder from Conduant Corp!

Conduant Corp. designs and manufactures real-time, long-duration digital recording and playback disk systems. But unlike traditional general purpose disk storage, Conduant’s products ensure reliable, guaranteed and sustained performance in increments of 800 MB/s. Now thats something you don't see every day.....

The key to Conduant’s technology is the innovative way data is recorded; directly from a third party source, bypassing the bottlenecks that can occur in traditional recording systems.

The Big River™ NTX16 recording system provides up to 800 MB/s recording and playback performance in a 3U rack mount chassis. The system can operate independently from a host computer with command and control performed over a network connection. Control can be automated from a software application using the StreamStor® software API from a network connected computer.

A cabled PCI Express interface provides high speed connectivity to a host computer for command and control or data access, and can be used to connect to nearly any computing architecture, such as PCI Express, XMC, VME, VPX, VXS, AMC or other mezzanine / backplane environments.

Solutions are even available for connection to notebook computers!

Features include:

• Peer-to-peer PCI Express recording and playback capability
• Performance independent of host load
• Standalone capable operation with network command/control
• Sustained recording and playback at up to 800 MB/s
• Rear PCI Express cabling
• 3U chassis at only 21” deep
• Scalable data storage capacities up to 48TB
• Solid-state or magnetic disk drive media
• Cabled PCI Express (x8) for full speed data access

For even more information on the digital recording and playback systems from Conduant please get in touch with us here at Sarsen. There are 9 different ways... pick any one. But we'll have to whisper it.....!!

High Reliability Processing - General Standards

High reliability processing is now available at General Standards Corporation. It is recommended for product applications that experience environmental temperature fluctuations and/or power cycling. It is also recommended for applications where repairs are difficult to make and/or failure is unacceptable. Now, at GSC, high reliability is not just using extended temperature components: High Reliability Processing - General Standards