ARRRRRGGGG!

Aircon has failed at our DR site.. ambient temp is 45c and rising

im presuming its a bad idea to shut servers down now as dont think they will come back up when they cool down.

Get some big fans and open the door?

Rob.

Get some big fans and open the door?

Rob.

Im trying to do that.. but struggling as the whole unit is v hot.

maybe I could persuade my ex to come sit in the unit....she's suitably frosty these days.......

Im trying to do that.. but struggling as the whole unit is v hot.

What's the ETA on the air conditioning engineer? Might be worth contacting some portable air con rental co's?

Rob.

I don't really know where I'm going with this, but somebody knowledgeable might Don't some materials absorb heat? I'm wondering whether it might be feasible to put some polystyrene lining paper (or whatever) around to soak it up? Good idea or Little Lie Down?

The trouble with fans is that they generate more heat unless you can direct them to blow the air out of a window or door.

It's generally better to stop sun-heat (as distinct from elec-heat) from getting in in the first place, so anything that'd stop direct sunlight in terms of blinds or preferably outside shutters would be good methinks.

I guess insulating tiles for a flat roof or metal ceiling would be good (in winter also), but hardly an instant answer.

Mo

the trouble with using insulating tiles mo is that the computers themselves are the most abundant heat source so by insultaing them you will only compound the problem.

lots of fans at the entrance and the exit of the room to get a good airflow through and nowt else to do without activly cooling the room i'd say.

well I'm already packing fans and black-out blinds.

Problem is, with double glazing, the heat just builds up behind the blinds and seems to "seep" through.

I've got the weekend to chew over my options, but looks to be £250 to get one with moving louvres and remote. Oh well....

Edit FAO bengie: Yes, I seem to recall where computers chuck out 90 degrees, so keeping them away from walls and tiny corners in work units and above "dusty carpet" level is a must IMO to allow air flow (if not done already).

OTOH People generate a lot of heat, so perhaps a week's paid vacation for the staff would be a good idea Not that daft, cos there'd be no excuse then for sickies during the world cup

More particularly, the potential cost of failure from computer breakdown might be sufficiently serious to warrant any measure that's likely to work IMO.

Regards

Mo

PS to Gwilo - You can get quite good filters that deflects sun heat before it gets in without reducing light level (as old ones did reduce light level). Not cheap though. You probably need planning permission these days for the mirror reflecting ones after a company in London was sued for deflecting the sunlight onto another company's building... Ooops!

OTOH People generate a lot of heat, so perhaps a week's paid vacation for the staff would be a good idea

Regards

Mo

Off topic: Did you hear about the web design company in Bristol that rewarded their 35 staff for their hard work by flying them all out to Mauritius for week, all expenses paid?

Nice work if you can get they say!

All the Best

Chris

Sounds like my loft - no 'proper' aircon running right now

I've actually added an exhaust to a pipe running from bathroom fan -> outside (i.e. suck hot air from back of the servers, into pipe, out of house).

Then in addition fans are pulling air out of the house over the servers.

Although turning servers off may not allow them to come back up again, it's probably better to do so for the non-critical ones to reduce the thermal output within the room. Hard discs dislike the higher temperatures a lot and you wouldn't want several RAID drives dying at the same time.

ahh well, 6 hire air con units later, and 2 engineers, and lots of sweat..... i dont care coz im in london for the weekend...

currently surfin in my hotel courtesy of a T mobile 3g data-card trial.... tiz quite good.. apart from having a quite gay looking bright pink gprs card stuck out the side of my matt black lapdog

anyway.. im off to the bar