Hi Brad, I have often found in my office/lab that heat has always been a big problem. The principle reason is this area is downstairs in my home, therefore has double brick walls and also faces east. The brick walls act like a heat sponge during the morning and make it near impossible to remove heat from the air inside the room during the height of summer. At one point I had 3 42RU racks in a much larger room with most of the gear running 24/7 which included 7 or 8 HDD shelves and DL380+580 servers associated network gear. At one point this “large’ room had a high temperature of around 36 degrees in the middle of summer. Not good at all. I ended up dividing the same space, about 8 x 3.6M, in half. Although I have not finished yet, I’ve calculated I should be able to run the same gear in a smaller room, but with hot and cold aisle type set up, the room can be kept at about 28 degrees C. The hot aisle faces the hot front brick wall of my home. Still not ideal, but this is only applicable when running my whole lab flat out……which doesn’t happen often. But still allows me to use the same heat pump gear, much more efficiently. Which is just one of the things we learn as we go. Also having worked in the HVAC &Building Automation industry at one point has helped. Take care Brad.
OK so first, the brick wall is bring in heat from the outside. If you notice in my videos I have a silver covered walls. There is a reason for that,. That is to prevent the very thing you are dealing with. You need to insulate the inner wall away from the the outer head of the outside. place up ferning strips 1x3 inch or 2x4 inch wood boards up on the brick walls and then put up the insulation that has a high R factor to retard heat retention. That will help a lot with your issue,. Hope this helps some.
Hi Brad,
I have often found in my office/lab that heat has always been a big problem. The principle reason is this area is downstairs in my home, therefore has double brick walls and also faces east. The brick walls act like a heat sponge during the morning and make it near impossible to remove heat from the air inside the room during the height of summer.
At one point I had 3 42RU racks in a much larger room with most of the gear running 24/7 which included 7 or 8 HDD shelves and DL380+580 servers associated network gear.
At one point this “large’ room had a high temperature of around 36 degrees in the middle of summer.
Not good at all.
I ended up dividing the same space, about 8 x 3.6M, in half. Although I have not finished yet, I’ve calculated I should be able to run the same gear in a smaller room, but with hot and cold aisle type set up, the room can be kept at about 28 degrees C. The hot aisle faces the hot front brick wall of my home. Still not ideal, but this is only applicable when running my whole lab flat out……which doesn’t happen often. But still allows me to use the same heat pump gear, much more efficiently.
Which is just one of the things we learn as we go. Also having worked in the HVAC &Building Automation industry at one point has helped.
Take care Brad.
OK so first, the brick wall is bring in heat from the outside. If you notice in my videos I have a silver covered walls. There is a reason for that,. That is to prevent the very thing you are dealing with. You need to insulate the inner wall away from the the outer head of the outside. place up ferning strips 1x3 inch or 2x4 inch wood boards up on the brick walls and then put up the insulation that has a high R factor to retard heat retention. That will help a lot with your issue,. Hope this helps some.
@@leadiususa7394 Thanks Brad 👍🏻