Airflow (was Re: [tech] Switchesu)

[Grahame Bowland]

On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 06:07:48PM +0800, Nick Bannon wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 02:56:12PM +0800, Anil Sharma <Grand Poobah Maset> wrote:
> [...]
> > But it should be more effective than the pretty diffuse setup we have got
> > now.
> 
> There is a concept for the machine room - cool air from the air
> conditioner comes in from the northeast, is sucked from the front
> of the racks (facing east) to the back (facing west) up and out
> the vent (possibly with extractor fans).
> 
> As long as there's nothing actively fighting that, it works about as
> well as we could expect. (not great, and it's not realistic for us to
> run a air-conditioner much bigger than the current one. Perhaps a 
> cheap pedastal fan could be made into an extractor...)

Unfortunately the existing air conditioner is not actually cooling the 
air passing through it. Maybe we should replace it or have it fixed..

Grahame

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