How not to wire a comm's rack
Quote from: pierre_pierre I have bonded copper inside, but Bonded to What?, it does come down to the fuse box,
I've tried to find the wiring regs online, but can't find them ??
http://www.theiet.org/publishing/wiring-regulations/about/
I assume that the electrical supply is earthed back at the local transformer.
Whenever I've installed telecom equipment ( in the hazy and distant past ) - it has been in a building with a proper earth installed beforehand by an electrical contractor. Or on a ship / oil rig - and that is fairly easy on a steel ship / rig
And with a very solid large bar of copper to attach all the earth cables to. I've only been into telephone exchanges very infrequently when working on BT projects, but they had huge copper earth bus bars connected to a massive piece of copper buried in the ground.
@Muppet Grinder
Good luck with that.
I spent a couple of days in October with the team that does that kind of stuff at work and they are in the process of sorting out the wiring in some of the older comms rooms on site which are not far off what you posted in terms of wiring spaghetti in preparation for replacing the core routers.
I do want to move into network design and maintenance but did think when I saw these rooms, are you really sure you want to do it for a living?
Good luck with that.
I spent a couple of days in October with the team that does that kind of stuff at work and they are in the process of sorting out the wiring in some of the older comms rooms on site which are not far off what you posted in terms of wiring spaghetti in preparation for replacing the core routers.
I do want to move into network design and maintenance but did think when I saw these rooms, are you really sure you want to do it for a living?
is this okrzynska spare room 
Quote from: pierre_pierre is this okrzynska spare room
Lol Nope, thats more like the spare cupboard at the top of the stairs at the moment lol. It's got about 18 computers in there....
The cupboard under the stairs has survived quite well though... only 3 in there currently but there are plans for the 4th to move in away from the desk
Lol... You'd think so wouldn't you?
Actually no. The 3 under the stairs are shut away in there for noise pollution purposes. Only 1 is regularly used these days and thats purely as a wifi AP. The other 2 haven't been booted for ages due to my working pattern.
Downstairs is very cold anyway and because we have no door at the bottom of the stairs (they just run up the back wall in the living room) all the heat goes straight up so downstairs is always cold.
The collection upstairs aren't actually in service at all at the moment. There are plans for that to change but for one thing I just don't have enough kettle leads or mains outlets
At the moment there is only really one 'main' pc being used and my partner uses the laptop she bought a while back (hence the machine under the stairs acting as wifi AP). The 2nd pc at the desk is rarely turned on now either due to the noisy PSU (had a very nice quiet one until I decided to dismantle, clean and dropped it while holding a wire - which stretched one of them inside and broke it!). Stuffed a AMD psu in it and its now too noisy to put up with so its just sitting there at the moment. It will however be joining its comrades in the not too distant future for heavy duty code crunching purposes. That however is also dependant on finding 2 more power outlets - one for the computer itself and another for an extra network switch!
Actually no. The 3 under the stairs are shut away in there for noise pollution purposes. Only 1 is regularly used these days and thats purely as a wifi AP. The other 2 haven't been booted for ages due to my working pattern.
Downstairs is very cold anyway and because we have no door at the bottom of the stairs (they just run up the back wall in the living room) all the heat goes straight up so downstairs is always cold.
The collection upstairs aren't actually in service at all at the moment. There are plans for that to change but for one thing I just don't have enough kettle leads or mains outlets
At the moment there is only really one 'main' pc being used and my partner uses the laptop she bought a while back (hence the machine under the stairs acting as wifi AP). The 2nd pc at the desk is rarely turned on now either due to the noisy PSU (had a very nice quiet one until I decided to dismantle, clean and dropped it while holding a wire - which stretched one of them inside and broke it!). Stuffed a AMD psu in it and its now too noisy to put up with so its just sitting there at the moment. It will however be joining its comrades in the not too distant future for heavy duty code crunching purposes. That however is also dependant on finding 2 more power outlets - one for the computer itself and another for an extra network switch!
Our server room is in my office....or.....my office is in the server room, not sure which 
Quote from: chillypenguin While on the subject of patch cables in racks, what do you do with the excessive length of patch cable?
Personally myself I just make a big loose loop of the remaining cable and chuck if in the floor - but not to small otherwise it reduces the signal. Sometimes I'll even afford a cable tie to loosely hold it all together too
The problem we have where I work is various teams physically moving or repurposing servers and not updating the documentaion.
Can be quite fun trying to work out which server is now running the service you need to reboot at 10.25 p.m. on a Saturday evening when I'm due to finish my shift at 10.30 and having to go to several racks or indeed computer suites in different buildinga trying to find it and then eventually finding it at 10.50 and waiting another 10 minutes for it to get back online.
As for patch cables, our networks team has the machinery to cut them to length and attach the connectors so you just tell them how long you need.
Can be quite fun trying to work out which server is now running the service you need to reboot at 10.25 p.m. on a Saturday evening when I'm due to finish my shift at 10.30
and having to go to several racks or indeed computer suites in different buildinga trying to find it and then eventually finding it at 10.50 and waiting another 10 minutes for it to get back online.As for patch cables, our networks team has the machinery to cut them to length and attach the connectors so you just tell them how long you need.
