RE: Stun me with your bathrooms!

["Hawes,Timothy Edward \(GEG\)" <haweste@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Harrison (Groups)  Sent: 21 January 2005 14:38
>
> We've looked at proper water-proof LCDs for a client, but
> he's balking over the cost at the moment.

This came up recently on the selfbuild list, I've pasted in part of my
response below:

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As an alternative, and I don't know if it would comply with Regs or not,
would be to use an IP65-rated industrial PC set into the wall (or into a
steel plate set into the wall). Have a look at these links for the sort
of thing I mean:
http://www.cdynamics.com/choicefpcomputers.html
http://www.impulse-corp.co.uk/axiomtek/AXIOMTEK_industrialslimclient.htm

Or, just a regular PC located outside the bathroom which feeds a
panel-mount monitor like this one, again set into the wall or mounted
into a steel plate set into the wall:
http://www.stealthcomputer.com/monitors_flat-PM.htm

Thinking about it, that's probably your better option as it should be
cheaper, and you're not tied to the (sometimes) lower-spec PC hardware
of the industrial PC. The roll-your-own solution will always involve
more fiddling, setting up etc. and you'll need some way of controlling
what's shown on the TV. Perhaps a Microsoft Media Centre PC (with it's
own remote) feeding an industrial monitor would be the way to go ?
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Can you have dual head monitor cards (1 for bedroom, 1 for bathroom) in
a MCE PC ?

HTH,

Tim H.