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RE: DATACENTER: AC and colo sizing question.
Liebert makes climate controlled cabinets too.
-----Original Message-----
From: David Labuskes [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2000 10:41 AM
To: '[email protected]'
Subject: RE: DATACENTER: AC and colo sizing question.
Thanks for the hand...guess a patent is out of the question eh!? ;{
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2000 11:13 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: DATACENTER: AC and colo sizing question.
[ On Friday, February 11, 2000 at 10:09:43 (-0500), David Labuskes wrote: ]
> Subject: RE: DATACENTER: AC and colo sizing question.
>
> "They've" been creating micro-environments in biolabs for a long time.
What
> I'm suggesting is a rack design that would essentially isolate the
operating
> environment of the rack from the operating environment of the people.
This
> environment would by definition be smaller than the room. The alternative
> of investing in a mechanical plant that will cool a 1.5 million _cubic_
foot
> environment or one that will cool multiple micro environments that are
> 24"X30"X84" would be dramatic.
"they" already do this for electronics. Rittal for example make many
enclosure climate control products. <URL:http://www.rittal.com>
I'm not sure it's cost-effective though -- you still have to get the
engergy from the room to the great outdoors somehow so unless you want
to run plumbing to air/water heat exchangers for every cabinet something
like the old mainframe days....
> A next evolutionary step would be to connect the cabinets via monitoring
> devices and directly monitor and control individual temperatures as
> required. Wouldn't this be useful?
Again, "they" already do! :-) Rittal's climate control BUS system is
one example; APC's environmental monitoring card is another option if
you're using their UPS'.
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Greg A. Woods
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