I agree about the insanity of DIN rail/ rail feet pricing. I ended up mounting my project boxes on top of DIN rail octal relay sockets, simply because I needed the rail feet 'yesterday' and it was a 'few off' project. Looked professional enough. Robert Morgan Olsson wrote: > Hi > I am looking at DIN Rail mount enclorures... > Why are theese so $$$$ expensive!? > > I can buy a resettable fuse in that encapsulation for 14 SEK ex VAT (approx 2 USD ) already in multiples of one, but for an empty enclosure i must pay more than the double each - about 30 SEK - when I buy at least 30 pcs? > > So, it is even economical to buy fuses, dissassemble and throw the internals out! - even at good work hour pay that is cheaper - that is just crazy! But it does not look professional... > > I see lots of different DIN rail mount devices, so i thought there should be competing enclosure manufacturers too. > And thera are a some, but they sell at ridiculous high cost all of them. > > I thought maybe I cold buy shells of that fuse cheaper than the fuse, but their rep would not care to ask the manufacturer for less than thousands of units. > > The size I need is about the size of a fuse, with four terminals for mains voltage and four for signal sida. (I am designing a intelligent relay, probably with a PIC in it) So like 10 to 17 mm long (along the rail), 65 mm high, 80mm wide. I can go with somewhat smaller too. Preferrably ventilated, i will have an expected total power loss of upp to 5W in a future model. > > In an earlier design I used a screw terminal, and integrated the electronics inside, making it just 6mm wide. But that is too small for the current design. > Even using double such shells is too small, plus clumsy to build, and screw terminals that are big inside (2 and 3 level types) aint very cheap anyway... > > Other ideas: > Small box + rail foot. Bad: Can not find a good rail foot at good price. > > Any ideas? > Volume is probably about 100 per year. > > /Morgan > -- > Morgan Olsson, Kivik, Sweden > > _______________________________________________ > http://www.piclist.com > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > _______________________________________________ http://www.piclist.com View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist