At 10:16 PM 12/17/04, you wrote:
>Anyone have a source for clear project boxes?
>
>There's a zillion boxes on the Digikey site and in the Mouser catalog but 
>I haven't seen any clear ones.
>
>(I'm building a LED button box for my kid and would like him to see the 
>wiring. Up the curiousity factor!)


In my PLC class, the students put their brick PLCs into a wide variety of 
boxes.  Anything from NEMA enclosures to typical digikey project boxes.  I 
thought I had seen just about every possible variation until one guy 
brought his PLC enclosed inside a Tupperware style box.  He could see 
through the lid and watch all the LEDs on the PLC and in addition he had 
switches and LEDs mounted in the cover.  It was also one of the worst 
wiring jobs I've seen, but it worked.  Picture the snake pit from one of 
the Indiana Jones movies with a PLC brick sitting on top of the 
snakes.  Replace snakes with wires and stuff it into a clear plastic box 
and you have an idea of what it looked like.  To his credit, he did cut 
some ventilation holes.

Scott


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