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Charles Yarnold  
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 More options Oct 6 2012, 3:57 pm
From: Charles Yarnold <charlesyarn...@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2012 20:57:53 +0100
Local: Sat, Oct 6 2012 3:57 pm
Subject: Re: [london-hack-space] Re: 19in APC rack

While I'm thankful for the thought for coolbot, if there isn't power for
coolbot, there also isn't power for the cutter to heat the water or the
chiller to cool it down, so it would just sit there unhappy and powerless
to do anything... :-)
On Oct 6, 2012 5:10 PM, "Adrian Godwin" <artgod...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Coolbot doesn't need much power and the cable run would be awkward. If
> it's needed, a small trickle-charged battery would probably do.
> Relocating babbage might change the picture.

> On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Simon <skl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > The liebert came into the space with old batteries - it was alive when
> > delivered but the original batteries died.
> > There was also an expansion battery case that was unused that came with
> it -
> > I transplanted 6 of the unused batteries into the UPS so it is almost as
> > good as new.
> > It never had rack rails but was originally mounted on L-shape shelf
> rails.

> > There is room for it in the boxed in power meters where doorbot is.
> > I t had been proposed earlier to house it there and run three lengths of
> > mains cable to:
> >  1. The network cabinet
> >  2. Coolbot
> >  3. Babbage
> > to provide clean UPS power to those bits of kit.

> > I did recently powe rup the UPS to give the batteries a bit of excercise.

> > On Friday, 5 October 2012 14:59:53 UTC+1, jasper wrote:

> >> On Fri, 5 Oct 2012, Russ Garrett wrote:

> >> > On 5 October 2012 15:05, Peter "Sci" Turpin <s...@sci-fi-fox.com>
> wrote:
> >> > > Aren't we going to need something to put the UPS system in since
> it's
> >> > > apparently ex-networking gear? And don't we currently have two
> >> > > separate
> >> > > wall-mounted rack cabinets around the quite-room entrance?

> >> > I don't know anything about any UPSes being donated (for one thing,
> >> > all the UPSes coming through the space have depleted batteries). It's
> >> > a big rack, it takes up a lot of space. We don't need a full-sized
> >> > rack for 2-3U of server and 4U of networking. Not to mention how long
> >> > it'll take to re-terminate all the networking again into yet another
> >> > new rack.

> >> There's a relativly nice liebert ups on the quiet room, it's missing
> it's
> >> rackmounting kit tho.

> >> --
> >> [http://pointless.net/]                                   [0x2ECA0975]


 
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