Side
Panels
Side Panels
are used to provide support for the rails and help secure
them at the correct module height (3U, 6U etc) as
well as
offering support to prevent the rails from
trying to twist
around their fixing bolts..
The standard
Side Plates are 160mm and allow construction of an industry-standard
subrack.
For shallower
systems our 40mm Side Plates are only 40mm deep
and are the
ones used in our Lite Racks.
Standard Side Panels offer additional fixing points for a
Back Panel
(ideal for mounting busboards on).
Our new
6U Desktop Side Panels allow you to build an open-frame Desktop
subrack
in a
variety of widths from 42HP to 168HP.
All Side
Panels and Side Plates incorporate half-shears providing an
additional mechanism
to correctly align rails in the horizontal
plain and to further reduce
the desire for the Rails to twist
around their fixing point.
All Side Panels are now 3U high.
Multiple height sub-racks
are constructed by bolting together multiple 3U units using
our Subrack Joiner Kits (each kit comprises 2 plates for securing
2x 3U sub-racks along with the required bolts). The bolts
offer a secure and rigid assembly and maintain the correct
spacing between 3U sections allowing any height tower to be
constructed in minutes.