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Non-reflective & Tinted Glass

Desk Construction

The Micromation “MODULINEAR” range of desk are built to the same high standard as Micromation’s very well known “Diamond Desk” range, but the concept of the MODULINEAR desk is somewhat different to the Micromation Diamond Desk.

The MODULINEAR desk consists largely of two different types of desk modules, namely a “Straight” module and a “Wing” module, and the desk is able to be disassembled into its constituent parts, (all of which will fit through a standard doorway, or be conveyed in a standard lift).

Each “Straight” module can accommodate the following:-

• An 11U x 19” rack space, situated below the working surface level in the base of the module, this being able to accommodate not only 19” rack equipment, but also a number of personal computers. This feature allows the desk itself to house some or all of the communication system electronics.

• A “Working Plane” or working surface.

• A slightly sloped “Instrument Plane” to house all our Communication Control Turrets and Speakers. (This plane is optional).

• A near vertical “Monitor Plane” which houses all ranges of Visual Display Monitors up to 21”

• An optional instrumentation light, fitted under the desk module pelmet, primarily aimed to illuminate the instrument plane.  This light runs off a low voltage supply (12 or 24 Volts), and the light's frequency is very high (10,000 to 20,000 Hz) which increases the light's efficiency, and makes "flicker" impossible to detect.

The MODULINEAR desks can be placed together in a large variety of configurations with all the edges neatly lining up, and therefore will meet most desk configuration needs.

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The principle dimensions of the Straight Module are as follows:-
 
 

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The MODULINEAR desk has many unique features, including:-

• A backward sloping desk hood, which will not allow operating staff to put books, food, coffee, etc. on it without them sliding off, which keeps the desk always looking neat and not cluttered with paper.

• The presence of the hood itself prevents operating staff from stuffing odd papers between V.D.U. monitors, again keeping up the neat appearance of the desk, (a major problem experienced when using non hooded desks).    However, the Modulinear desk is also available in a non-hooded version, which has a writing plane and an instrument plane, but the monitor plane is simply a horizontal surface bounded by the instrument plane and a reticulation channel.

• The monitor plane is also accommodates an specialise 8 layer non-reflective slightly tinted glass screen which increases the contrast of a VDU, as well as provides UV protection from conventional CRT VDUs.

• Each module is equipped with adjustable feet allowing the desk to be installed on an uneven floor without suffering from joint stress.

• Each desk can be expanded or contracted by adding or removing modules.

• Each module has easily removable, but also optionally lockable front, rear and top panels, for easy maintenance access.

• With the exception of the working plane, all other planes are approximately at right angels to the operator’s gaze, so that the operator can easily view all illuminated devices such as l.e.d.s and screens.

• Apart from the working surface, virtually all other surfaces are neither parallel to the floor or the walls of the centre.   This is done deliberately to increase the acoustic performance of the desk, so that any incident sound is deflected at an angle. aiding its absorption.

• The back of the desk is sloped, allowing the desk to be neatly installed flat up against a rear wall, even if the wall is fitted with trunking at the floor level.

• The operating staff can easily see over the top of the desk, and the sloping hood also allows the operator to be able to look down at objects at ground level in the distance.

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There are two popular methods of mounting VDU screens into a control desk - one way is to fit the desk front panel to the VDU by means of a cut-out in the panel, the other way is to mount slightly tinted glass as the front panel, then install the VDU screens behind this glass.
 

• The glass front panel has significant advantages, which includes :-

• The fact that with the correct shade of tinting, the operator mainly sees only the illuminated screen itself, not the screen surrounds or the rest of the VDU, which makes the desks look good, even if a whole range of different VDUs are being used,

• The ability to swop VDU screens, and screen sizes with ease, without having to replace one screen with an identical version so that it fits the cut-out,

• The apparently greater screen contrast when view through the glass,

• The substantial reduction of electronic emissions which are attenuated by the glass.

Unfortunately no glass is truly non-reflective - even the world's finest reduced reflectivity glass reflects a small amount of incident light.  We use an 8 layer glass which in practice virtually eliminates all reflections when viewing the glass at a normal angle (at 90 degrees to the glass surface).

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All Micromation Modulinear desks are usually constructed of either light Oak or Beech wood, although the customer may order the desks in any other readily obtainable wood.   The desk's flat panels are made of a contiguous wood veneer, but all edging is made from the solid wood.   This means that any damage to any of the edging can be repaired just like a solid wooden desk. As a single contiguous veneer is used throughout the desk construction, all panels accurately match each other.  The wood is treated with a hard wearing polyurethane varnish, which is thick enough to adequately protect the wood, but thin enough so that the grain can still be seen and felt.  If required, the writing surface can be constructed of a hard wearing artificial wood, for very rugged applications.

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