It was Christmas Today, I got a cabinet!
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It was Christmas Today, I got a cabinet!
26-02-2010 8:43 PM
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After having my eye out for a long time I finally rescued a cabinet from the skip at work. It is a 22U 600 deep. 800 would have been better because the back door will have to stay off to fit my UPS but still I like it.
I have a patch panel, some shelves and some cage nuts ordered. I will just put my servers on shelves and order some rack mount chassis for them at a later date.
It was a bit of effort disassembling and reassembling the cab to get it into its new home. I need to tidy up all the cables before putting everything in and then also put the door and the sides back on.
Re: It was Christmas Today, I got a cabinet!
27-02-2010 8:43 AM
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Good luck that the move goes well and everything works when moved into the rack
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28-02-2010 8:59 PM
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They will do my servers nicely.
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01-03-2010 8:16 AM
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02-03-2010 5:29 PM
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02-03-2010 5:52 PM
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We've had the conversation (a few years ago now I think) with Sean about this before - it seems to have been serving him OK for a while now though.
It would be one of my least favored places to put computer equipment, but it's obviously doing OK in his setup at the minute.
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02-03-2010 6:52 PM
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I have been in a few comms rooms, one in particular in the Royal Hospital in Belfast where the temperature is way above anything you might think could support delicate computer equipment.
Surprising how resilient this stuff if.
Yes the lifespan may be reduced but so far I have been upgrading due to the normal advances in technology before anything has had a chance to fail.
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04-03-2010 10:16 PM
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I am still waiting on some other bits and pieces to complete the rack but I got my Windows server rehoused and back up and running, will do my Linux machine tommorrow. The cases are really nice, will set off my cabinet nicely
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05-03-2010 8:55 AM
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Can't you get some forced ventilation for the roof-space for the really hot days
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05-03-2010 4:32 PM
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Although there will be no back door on the cabinet it should still help lower the temperature in the general area. Idealy it would have some sort of thermostat on it to automatically switch on when the temperature gets above a fixed level.
I am not going to worry about it at the minute though. It is definitely not too hot up there at this time of year!
The second future project is to have automatic power cut off in the event of fire. For this I was thinking of using a commercial smoke or heat detector directly above the cabinet and a suitable relay to cut both input and output to my UPS in the event of smoke/heat. Something I have always had in the back of my mind.
On a second point, my rackmount PDU arrived from eBay today but still waiting on the cage nuts from comms express. Not sure why they have express in their name? That is holding up the whole project. Shame I couldn't have got those from eBuyer, they're quick.
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05-03-2010 5:16 PM
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05-03-2010 5:23 PM
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05-03-2010 5:28 PM
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05-03-2010 5:35 PM
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If you put cold air in at the top, and let hot air out of the top, you are trying to have two airflows in the same box. Its not impossible, but it is not as efficient as it could be if you just ducted the cool air inlet straight to the bottom.
Sean - cooling pipes are at the top in refrigerators since they need to absorb energy from the warm air - they are not "to put cool in" they are "to take warmth out".
In any case Sean, the hot air will always need to come out of the top of the cabinet.
You can also put cool air in, but it will interfere with the natural airflows to an extent.
Pipework is cheap Sean - duct the cool air in at the bottom if you are going to go ahead.
Re: It was Christmas Today, I got a cabinet!
05-03-2010 5:53 PM
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When the time comes I will try different options to see which has the best results.
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