Full Unit Overview - mercadian/proteus GitHub Wiki

Full Unit Overview

This guide shows a general overview of the physical details for the full unit (model MSPR-ACxxxx).

For assembly and disassembly instructions, see the respective pages based on your model number.

Components

Each active-cooled unit consists of the following components:

  • A Rock 5B Single-Board Computer (SBC) with 16 GB of onboard LPDDR4x RAM
  • An SK Hynix P31 Gold 2TB NVMe Solid-State Drive (SSD) with an accompanying heatsink
  • A Noctua NF-A4x20 silent fan
  • Additional heatsinks on the RAM, power conversion, and Ethernet chips
  • An optional Wi-Fi / bluetooth card, one of the following:
  • A battery for the onboard real-time clock (RTC)
  • The Proteus Front Panel with power and activity LED indicators
  • (For v1.2 and higher) a USB-micro debugging port with access to the serial console and bootloader log
  • A customizable aluminum vanity plate
  • A 3D-printed PLA case
  • A 12v power supply with a barrel-plug-to-USB-C adapter
  • A 7-foot CAT6 Ethernet cable

External Views

This is an annotated view of the front of the Proteus:

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This is an annotated view of the back of the Proteus, also showing the flow of air (intake from the top, exhaust out the bottom):

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Interval Views

This is the top of the Proteus with the cover removed:

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Here is the back of the Proteus with the cover removed:

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Here is the bottom of the Proteus after being removed from the case entirely:

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