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Sansun Bat Case
Bat Case Interior Introduction
Bat Case Exterior
Bat Case Interior
System Setup, Design Notes
Conclusion
  Written by: Stephen“Tulatin”Babyn 4/03/06

After carefully pulling the wings off of this bat (as sadistic as it sounds), we found ourselves greeted by a more interesting version of your run of the mill casing interior. Starting from the front of the chassis, we found ourselves greeted with quadruple 5 ½ Inch bays, each adorned with a pair of tool free twist clamps, which can be removed (a little too easily for our liking) if you want to use screws in their place. Sliding down past these primer grey bays, we come to a pair of drive cages, secured in a rather ingenious way. By pushing the small silver clamp seen near their rump, you can just slide the cages out of place, and then push them back in with drives installed, to hear a nice, satisfying click as they secure. In front of these are a pair of small metal lips, which are secured to the front of the case with your standard 6-32 threaded screws. In the sides of these cages, there are long open spots, so you can mount fan controllers and the like, or secure the fronts of uncooled hard drives. Included in the bottom bay is a bracket for an 80mm fan, which will bring fresh, cool air in from the cases mouth and pass it over the trio of drives within. Entering the casing from just right of this point is the power connector for the forward LEDs, which is hooked up to a small header, and then a straight-thru Molex pass-thru connector.

Sliding along the case floor past the indentation design, we come to the tool free PCI retention module, and the internal view of the re-usable backplane covers. By sliding each block forward and clicking it into place, your cards will be snugly held. If you should prefer to do this with screws, you just have to remove three screws from the case’s rump, before this spot becomes accessible. Just above this, we can find the internal view of the dual 80mm or single 120mm fan mount, flanked to the side by a token I/O shield, designed after a standard that hasn’t been followed in years. Above this location is a PSU mount, with minimal supports, intended to stop your behemoths from pulling the metal down with them. Below and behind this is the motherboard tray, which comes with six standoffs pre-installed for your mini motherboard mounting pleasure. Additional standoffs and case hardware can be found in the small box found floating free inside the chassis. Beyond this, there really isn’t all too much to see, besides the plethora of wires dangling down from above, which will be needed to be secured somewhere out of sight, as well as routed towards your hardware.


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