BotBlox SwitchBlox Industrial

Exact Same SwitchBlox Functionality, -40°C to 85°C operating range with 9000PSI Pressure Tolerance

SwitchBlox Industrial is an upgrade to the SwitchBlox board that provides the same functionality with a wider qualified temperature range, a smaller form factor and basic switch management features.

SwitchBlox Industrial can be used as a drop in replacement for SwitchBlox for applications that run at wider temperatures. In many cases it is also a smaller and cheaper alternative to SwitchBlox Rugged (when the upper 105°C limit is not required).

Botblox have developed SwitchBlox Industrial for three main reasons. Firstly they wanted to upgrade our initial SwitchBlox design to improve upon size, performance and temperature range. They also wanted to help mitigate some of the stock issues on our rugged boards by providing a "middle-ground" alternative between the standard and rugged series. Finally we wanted to offer basic switch management in a ridiculously small package.

SwitchBlox Industrial is now fully pressure tolerant for deep sea applications. Read more here.

Same five 10/100Mbps, smaller size

SwitchBlox Industrial provides the same five 10/100Mbps ethernet ports as SwitchBlox, however it achieves this in a 38mm (1.49 inch) square rather than a 44.5mm (1.75 inch) square.

Botblox have achieved this by applying some of the design techniques they have learnt since designing SwitchBlox, namely their inter-layer differential trace placement, surface mount transformers, and optimal copper plane heat dissipation.

SwitchBlox Industrial has four M2 (2.2mm) holes for mounting into an application. This is different to the M3 holes used on the variety of our other boards.

Industrial Temperature Range

All parts on SwitchBlox Industrial are rated to operate from -40°C to 85°C, meaning the board can be used in more demanding applications that SwitchBlox. This is achieved by using industrially rated silicon and passives on the board.

Passive PoE is back!

SwitchBlox Industrial now implements the Passive PoE function that was originally present on SwitchBlox. This feature means the power input applied to SwitchBlox can be routed to any or all of its powers to power downstream devices. Which ports are connected is selected by way of a DIP switch on the front of the board. Note that a single 0R resistor needs to be soldered to the board to enable this feature.

Switch Management via BloxOSLite on Revision D

SwitchBlox Industrial Revision D (and above) now ships with firmware to allow switch configuration over a 3.3V UART Command Line Interface. This allows configuration of port speed, duplex, as well as port and tag based VLAN.

Read the docs on BloxOSLite

LED signal breakout

SwitchBlox Industrial includes an LED signal breakout header on the back of the board. This allows the LED signals to be broken out for driving external LEDs.

Each line puts a 1kΩ in series with each LED cathode.

The connector used on the board is 5037630691 (Molex PicoLock) which mates with 5037640601 using crimp 5037650098. A premade cable, 0151320605 can be purchased to interface with this connector. This cable configuration is identical to the LED breakout header on SwitchBlox Rugged, meaning SwitchBlox Industrial can be used as a drop-in replacement for SwitchBlox Rugged.

5-60V input range with 5V, 1.5A output + power protection

Much like SwitchBlox, SwitchBlox Industrial can run from a wide voltage range from 5-60V. SwitchBlox Industrial also provides overvoltage and reverse polarity protection while also providing a regulated 5V power output with up to 1.5A current sourcing ability.