[rescue] Cooling (was S: 512M (4x128M) U5/10 DIMMs)

Big Endian bigendian at mac.com
Mon Apr 15 16:21:37 CDT 2002


>   In the early days of Digex, we used a Movin-Cool...a 10K BTU indoor
>a/c on wheels, a little smaller than a washing machine.  It had a big
>flexible hose (18" or so in diameter) coming out the top that blew out
>hot air, and a smaller flexible hose (maybe 8" in diameter) that blew
>out cold air.  Condensate collected in a catch bucket in the bottom of
>the unit.

Those things *RULE*  We had one in the wiring/server closet at my 
last job (sealed room, no ventilation except the A/C unit with the 
hot pipes up into the ceiling tiles).  That thing got *VERY* cold.

>   These things work *great*, but they're somewhat expensive.  Digex
>wouldn't have made it past 1993 if it weren't for that Movin-Cool.

Box/Space ratio?

daniel
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