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Re: (ASCEND) Everyone go buy a fan.
Agreed, Heres we have tremendous 7000CFM Dayton Industrial fans blowing
air through our MAX'S. You have to get air through those boxes as the
DSP's can get quite hot and affect modem performance.
Jason Nealis
Director Internet Operations / Network Access
Erols Internet (An RCN Company)
On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Joe Shaw wrote:
>
> On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Darkshot wrote:
>
> > So. A quick drive to the remote PoP. I unstacked (physically) the 3
> > Maxen, placed aluminum spacers between them, rotated them 30 degrees
> > from each other, turned a window fan on the "pile o'Maxen", rebooted,
> > and....over 13 hours later, no problems. NONE. We're now headed into
> > the "heat of the day" so if there are going to be problems, we'll see
> > them within the next 6 hours. The main harbringer is CRC errors- at
> > least here, when we see those start at all, we know we're getting ready
> > to see the reboots and/or lost modems.
>
> You'll also find that having two racks of MAXen side by side is a bad idea
> as well. They simply blow hot air into the ones in the rack to the left
> of them, and it's overheat city.
>
> Joe Shaw - jshaw@insync.net
> NetAdmin - Insync Internet Services
> "Backhoes never sleep." - Patrick Greenwell
>
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