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Revolution Pi – Industrial PC Based on Raspberry Pi

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Re: Revolution Pi – Industrial PC Based on Raspberry Pi

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How industrial are we talking? Is it certified for use in industrial environments? I saw a few mentions of IEC61131-2, but I couldn't find whether it actually has certifications.

If it is suitable for use in the industry, I can't wait to ditch ladder and Structured Text in favour of modern programming languages for industrial controllers.

Re: Revolution Pi – Industrial PC Based on Raspberry Pi

#6
This would have been perfect for my last startup. Keeping those damn Pi's running when they were deployed across the country was a nightmare.

The SD cards had around a 20% failure rate per year. Eventually I just started shipping each system with a backup SD card taped to the inside of the case.

Re: Revolution Pi – Industrial PC Based on Raspberry Pi

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post #5

Is this a just a regular Raspberry Pi in a nice case?

No, it appears to be using the Raspberry Pi 3 compute module. That's essentially a small circuit board with the core components of an RPi3 already designed and assembled. They then solder/plug this module into a larger board to add connectors and peripherals to it. So there's some custom design involved.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/compute-module-3-launch/

Re: Revolution Pi – Industrial PC Based on Raspberry Pi

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post #6

This would have been perfect for my last startup. Keeping those damn Pi's running when they were deployed across the country was a nightmare. The SD cards had around a 20% failure rate per year. Eventually I just started shipping each system with a backup SD card taped to the inside of the case.

What did your startup do that required that many Raspberry Pis?
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