Re: Attic Server

[hoyin <yahoogroups@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Why on earth do you need a heater?

Surely you never want it to get warm at all .. the colder the better??

Ho Yin

On 6 Mar 2004, at 10:14, Matthew Reeve wrote:

>  I have a Dell poweredge server stored in it's box as it makes too
>  > much noise to keep in a bedroom or the lounge. I could put it in
the
>  > attic as I have spare power and can run some cat5 to it, but I'm
>  > worried about the temperature extremes in there. I noticed some
of
>  > you use your attics as node zero. Have you encountered any
problems
>  > doing this due to the temperature. Alternatively do you know any
way
>  > to silence it and will disabling some of the fans have an
adverse
>  > effect?
>  > Mark
>
>  My node zero is in the loft here, to solve the problem of the=20
> overheating I
>  have fitted a room stat (drayton RTS4 in case you were wondering)=20
> which has
>  two outputs, one to turn on an electric heater when it's cold, and=20
> the other
>  to turn on an extractor fan when it's hot. This way, whenever the
loft
>  starts to get hot, the extractor fan starts drawing air out of the=20
> top of
>  the loft (the extractor is right at the top of the apex on an end=20
> wall)
>  which means cooler air from outside is drawn in. This way, the
loft=20
> never
>  gets overly hot even during the summer.
>
>  My servers were up there during the heatwave last year and none of=20
> them
>  overheated. I've also got one of those stats on the inside of my
7'=20
> 19" rack
>  which turns on the rack fans at the top of the case, drawing air
from=20
> the
>  base through to the top. The only tweak I had to make to it was to=20
> use the
>  'stat on the electric heater to make sure it doesn't come on above 8
>  degrees, giving me a gap between the heater coming on at 8 degrees=20
> and the
>  extractor coming on at about 20.
>
>  Total cost, including 2 stats, extractor fan kit and heater was
less=20
> than
>  =A350.
>
>  Don't forget the issue of dust as well, we have a separate section
of=20
> the
>  loft which is used for node zero/boiler/tanks etc which is closed
off=20
> from
>  the rest, has wooden floor, boarded sides etc and is kept as dust=20
> free as
>  possible. Think how much dust gets kicked up in the loft when you
move
>  things around normally and then think how much of that you want
going=20
> into
>  your server.
>
>  Matthew Reeve
>  www.rangie.com The Range Rover Knowledge Base
>
>
>


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