Re: Home Networking Advice

On Tue, 8 May 2007 23:46:07 -0700, "Shawn B." <leabre@xxxxxxxx> wrote:


I will installing a vent into the door of the close for ventilation and will
also install a fan into the room to help keep it cool in there, can get hot
in the summer days. I might, but not sure, extend my standar A/C to vent
the closet. I plan to put my NAS boxes in there, I have a few
multi-terabyte RAID NAS devices that I'd like to move out of my computer
room.

In regards to your heat load in the closet, I have done roughly the
same thing, A couple of 1U servers, a couple of 4U servers, 4U UPS and
a bunch of 4U SCSI storage racks. 24 port switch, DSL modem and
associated equipment. Wife acceptance factor went thru the roof, with
me being back to just a desktop in sight! Unfortunately, the resulting
almost 10,000 BTU load was a little high for the space. I had on hand,
a small blower, and associated pipe work to duct it out the roof with
a line voltage thermostat mounted on the ceiling. This keeps it at
ambient temp + 10F on the hot days. The total number of fans on this
equipment is at least 15 "prime mover flow thru the boxes" to keep the
equipment supplied with cooling air, and it will stay within
reasonable range of manufactures specs for all equipment. You should
watch the temp climb in an un-vented space that is tight, passive
"gravity" cooling will be "iffy" the moment that you put some CPU
power, or HDD dissipated heat in there. Drawing inlet air from the
bottom, exhausting out the top has worked for me in an essentially
non-conditioned space but it took exhausting the heat out of the room.
YMMV.

c
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Woodsy,
Off the Grid, Off the Road, Off my Rocker...

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