I own and administer an light-industrial design shop (CleanBoot Systems) where each of about 30 employees is simultaneously using two or (most commonly) three computers and video monitors at his/her "user-station."
I would like to purchase and hook-up (in an external enclosure independent of the separate computers themselves), one of your 634 LCD modules for each user-station, to be switched between the two or three computers at each user-station, so that I can easily keep watch of various hardware parameters of the user-station computers without having to take over control of the user's keyboards and display monitors.
My question is this:
Because I have (at minimum) 25 - 30 user stations with two or three computers and monitors each, I am hoping that I can use a simple unbuffered, three-way DB25 switchbox to switch the input to a single 634 LCD module between the serial output of the two or three computers --in other words, a serial cable from each computer at a user-station routed to a three-way DB25 switchbox, and the single serial cable output of the switchbox attached to the 634 module input.
Does this sound feasible? If not, is there some other way in which the switching could be accomplished?
I would plan to use a switchbox with "break-before-make" type contacts, but otherwise unbuffered, although I could arrange to have power to the 634 cut off during switching --would that be necessary or wise?).
As I stated above, I would not plan to mount the 634 LCD panel in any of the computers, but rather in a external enclosure, or perhaps even in the switchbox enclosure itself, if mechanically feasible.
My reason for this scheme is that although I can justify purchasing 25 -30 of your 634 LCD panels (with bezels, cables, etc), I would not find it feasible to purchase three times that number of units (in other words, one for each computer at each user-station).
I would appreciate any advice you can offer, as I would like to purchase the CrystalFontz 634 modules very soon, and build and install the configurations I described above during a scheduled "down-time" between jobs that starts the first week of June.
Thank you for your help.
J. Gordon L.
CleanBoot Systems
Owner@CleanBoot.com
I would like to purchase and hook-up (in an external enclosure independent of the separate computers themselves), one of your 634 LCD modules for each user-station, to be switched between the two or three computers at each user-station, so that I can easily keep watch of various hardware parameters of the user-station computers without having to take over control of the user's keyboards and display monitors.
My question is this:
Because I have (at minimum) 25 - 30 user stations with two or three computers and monitors each, I am hoping that I can use a simple unbuffered, three-way DB25 switchbox to switch the input to a single 634 LCD module between the serial output of the two or three computers --in other words, a serial cable from each computer at a user-station routed to a three-way DB25 switchbox, and the single serial cable output of the switchbox attached to the 634 module input.
Does this sound feasible? If not, is there some other way in which the switching could be accomplished?
I would plan to use a switchbox with "break-before-make" type contacts, but otherwise unbuffered, although I could arrange to have power to the 634 cut off during switching --would that be necessary or wise?).
As I stated above, I would not plan to mount the 634 LCD panel in any of the computers, but rather in a external enclosure, or perhaps even in the switchbox enclosure itself, if mechanically feasible.
My reason for this scheme is that although I can justify purchasing 25 -30 of your 634 LCD panels (with bezels, cables, etc), I would not find it feasible to purchase three times that number of units (in other words, one for each computer at each user-station).
I would appreciate any advice you can offer, as I would like to purchase the CrystalFontz 634 modules very soon, and build and install the configurations I described above during a scheduled "down-time" between jobs that starts the first week of June.
Thank you for your help.
J. Gordon L.
CleanBoot Systems
Owner@CleanBoot.com
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