FreeAxez raised flooring?

Tim Durack tdurack at gmail.com
Tue Mar 9 03:59:18 UTC 2010


On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 10:21 PM, William Herrin <bill at herrin.us> wrote:
> I poked through AFCO's drawings at
> http://www.afcosystems.com/pdf/AFCO_Drawings.pdf, How much of a size
> hit is typical? Do you take the depth out to 52" to create enough
> space in front of the equipment for air to flow and take the 6-inch
> hit to the side for the cabling sidecar?

EHD racks with 6" sidecars, one on each side, as we have significant
cabling density to handle. Rack frame is 48" deep.

> What's the impact with respect to sharing the facility with non-AFCO
> cabinets? I would imagine that with a bunch of these things
> dynamically changing their air flow it would be hard to maintain a
> static pressure under the floor.

No impact - it's all the same racks :-)

Airflow under the floor has not been an issue. It's not much different
than moving perf tiles around periodically.

-- 
Tim:>




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