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RE: DATACENTER: AC and colo sizing question.
Yup. And they've got a cute name to go along with a cute product.
"The Little Glass House"
They're like, what, $4K, each?
Not very scaleable.
However, they're great if all you're doing is one or two racks.
On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Bearn, Paul wrote:
> 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.
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>
> 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.
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>
> [ 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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Ken Woods
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