FC Dimensions

Karl Houseknecht said:
Ugh, yes, I didn’t take the end caps into account. This is going to be a challenge to mount. Perhaps Cliff or Matt could share their thoughts on this.
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There are screws on the front of each of the end caps. I wonder if there are on the bottom as well. If so you could get a longer screw to go through the board and into the end cap. Unfortunately there is not a picture of the bottom.
 
bishop5150 said:
Probably just 4 small strips in each of the corners would probably do the trick.
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I agree, it probably would, but if you look close at the side view in the drawings the bottom of the “feet” are grooved, presumably to grip a carpeted floor better and prevent sliding. That probably won’t allow the Velcro to adhere securely to the bottom of the four corners. If they were flat, the Velcro could get a good grip.

This small little design choice is going to make it more difficult than it should be to mount the controller on my Velcro covered Pedaltrain.
 
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bdrepko said:
There are screws on the front of each of the end caps. I wonder if there are on the bottom as well. If so you could get a longer screw to go through the board and into the end cap. Unfortunately there is not a picture of the bottom.
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My board is also a case... I'm not planning to drill holes. I've had it long enough to know that requirements change over time. It'd look like Swiss cheese by now :D
 
Karl Houseknecht said:
Dual lock is so strong that I always overestimate how much is needed. I’ve sometimes had to use a pry bar and my whole weight to get large items off a board.
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If there's not enough surface area for attaching heavy items with dual lock, the dual lock itself might not fail but the adhesive glue part can fail :p hopefully there's enough surface area on the bottom of FCs.
 
bdrepko said:
So is mine. But it is around 1.5 inches deep, so I got a piece of hardboard and placed in inside so I could drill holes without destroying the top of the case.
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Yeah... A piece of that attached under the FC could then be attached to the board with Velcro.

Or like what I posted before:

unix-guy said:
I'm imagining crafting a "plate" of either plexiglass or wood that I can "shim" between the FC-12 and the board...
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Karl Houseknecht said:
Ugh, yes, I didn’t take the end caps into account. This is going to be a challenge to mount. Perhaps Cliff or Matt could share their thoughts on this.
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Don't ever do this without official word as to whether or not it will affect your warranty, but I think you could remove the end caps to mount the FC on a board. The enclosure is a fully closed box even without them.
 
Admin M@ said:
Don't ever do this without official word as to whether or not it will affect your warranty, but I think you could remove the end caps to mount the FC on a board. The enclosure is a fully closed box even without them.
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That would certainly be sufficient for me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:D
 
Admin M@ said:
Don't ever do this without official word as to whether or not it will affect your warranty, but I think you could remove the end caps to mount the FC on a board. The enclosure is a fully closed box even without them.
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I did this with AX8 worked fine
 
Am I blind or is that drawing missing a height dimension? I’m trying to see if the FC6 will fit in my guitar case but I need an overall thickness dimension... much appreciated if anyone saw one posted or has one.
 
spiffychee said:
Am I blind or is that drawing missing a height dimension? I’m trying to see if the FC6 will fit in my guitar case but I need an overall thickness dimension... much appreciated if anyone saw one posted or has one.
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The FC-6 drawing shows chassis height; the height of the FC-12 is the same. The monkey tie-offs extend about 5/8" higher.
 
Although I didn’t get to see the drawings until just now, I had an idea a while ago for a simple mounting system that could also potentially be the basis for a lighting platform (similar to my ZenRigs GkoRisers) for the controllers.

I’ve got some prototypes coming in a week and will test out on my AX8. If it works (!), I’ll keep you posted :)

Sukh
 
FractalAudio said:
FC-6:
www.fractalaudio.com/tmp/029-ASY-001%20r1.0.png

FC-12:
www.fractalaudio.com/tmp/028-ASY-001%20r1.2.png
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Cliff, I was interested to know the center-on-center separation of the footswitches, in inches.

Looking at the footswitches in these diagrams, it looks as if they are...
  • 3 inches apart, measured left-to-right; and,
  • 3.75 inches apart, measured front-to-back (i.e. between the two rows).

Did I get that right?

And if so, how does that compare to the MFC-101? (I'd whip out a tape measure but my MFC is elsewhere at the moment.)
 
Dr. Dipwad said:
Cliff, I was interested to know the center-on-center separation of the footswitches, in inches.

Looking at the footswitches in these diagrams, it looks as if they are...
  • 3 inches apart, measured left-to-right; and,
  • 3.75 inches apart, measured front-to-back (i.e. between the two rows).

Did I get that right?

And if so, how does that compare to the MFC-101? (I'd whip out a tape measure but my MFC is elsewhere at the moment.)
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This should be about to scale. Much further apart both left-to-right and front-to-back.

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