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by **Crunge98** on Wed Apr 24, 2013 7:15 am

EPAC-EPIC-MARC wrote:Thats neat that the manufacturers are coming out with all-in-one controllers with built in load switches, monitors, and/or detection. Maybe we will start to see cabinets shrink in size as the electronics become all-in-one units.

That is a bad Idea in my opionion. When you have a switch pack or a monitor go bad you can switch it out. If it is all contained your just asking for trouble.

by **EPAC-EPIC-MARC** on Wed Apr 24, 2013 8:57 am

Crunge98 wrote:
EPAC-EPIC-MARC wrote:Thats neat that the manufacturers are coming out with all-in-one controllers with built in load switches, monitors, and/or detection. Maybe we will start to see cabinets shrink in size as the electronics become all-in-one units.

That is a bad Idea in my opionion. When you have a switch pack or a monitor go bad you can switch it out. If it is all contained your just asking for trouble.

Yeah I agree with ya there. They're neat but from a real world aspect it could be a huge pain when one part fails and all the load switch/monitor/detector components are intertwined on a few circuitboards inside the controller itself.

I like the idea of having an all in one, small package controller but with front panel cards 170 style that way its still compact and all-in-one but the individual components are still swappable. As the technology moves to smaller packages it may get more and more realistic to do something like that.

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