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Hi everyone. I need some help figuring out how to mount a PC that has no mounting holes. The board is for an under-cupboard LED lighting system. Each individual board is 12" long and .6" wide. The way the board has been designed doesn't allow for mounting holes(in order to keep things as thin as possible). If anyone has experience mounting a board like this, I would greatly appreciate the help. I was thinking that it could be mounted in some sort of channel that would allow it to be slid into. I have never seen channel like this, nor do I know where I would find this channel, but here's a picture of what it would ideally look like. The board's width can be expanded to a more common size within reasonable constraints in order to fit this type of channel if needed. Here's a side view of the channel.
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Do you know someone that machines stuff? If so, Ask them to "dado" a block of wood to the PCB thickness with a table saw. Like this, you just set the blade low, and run the wood through several times.
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Is it a commercial system, if so, do you know what the manufacturer intended to be used? Usually that will be the neatest and easiest option, though not necessarily the cheapest.
If you've made it, then "keeping it as thin as possible" is a classic example of going for the wrong optimum, it needed to be not "thin as possible" but "easy to fit" as well.
You could try visiting your local DIY, and looking for plastic channel. What's available in them depends on your locality. I dont know where you live, but in the UK wiring regulations say that fixed surface cables must be enclosed in conduit or trunking. This means that there are several profiles of mini PVC trunking available, including 16mm and 20mm wide IIRC, that might do the trick if used without the lid.
How about if you removed every 2nd white LED for example and drilled through the board to make a fixing hole, wiring damaged tracks across if needed?
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Mounting a PC board without mounting holes?
