Quote from: finnzwerg on July 14, 2013, 10:08:17 PM

Quote from: SebastianJu on July 14, 2013, 04:48:02 PM

I think you miss a LOT space with this design. If you would use a rack adapter you would build in way more miners. At the moment you maybe use 200mm, but colocation racks have space for 750mm depth. Much unused space.
The other thing is... why do you use 3U for PSU? ATX-PSU's are designed especially for 2HU Height. So one would pay for 1HU extra.

Yes we are aware of that Wink

To build a solid PSU Panel for 2HE it would have been double-angled wich almost means double-priced Cry

and the Rasberry PI would not fit in between the PSUs.

The question is, what does the customer wants. These panels can be produced for a low price, they can be mounted into racks or even in shelves.

We also had the idea for a complete Case with 26 Boards and one PSU in 3HE but building a whole case is sadly to expensive. ~300 per pice + ~600 developement cost.
If we somebody order 1000 of them they would only cost <80 each.

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in this demo setup you could also mount the PSU Unit and a BitBurner Unit in the front and two BitBurner Units in the back, half the height, same the fun Cheesy

but what i dont get: why are the plugs for the hoses in front of the Panel, that just makes no sense. Leave the Plugs inside, so you could connect the heatsinks from the units in the front easy with those in the back, if it stays like that it will be a pain in the ass to connect all those hoses.

next point: if you really are going for a datacenter you really should think about power supply redundancy.
you could also use one of those sweet 19" redundant 2kw psus like

http://business.fantec.eu/html/en/2/artId/__1128/gid/__2009020590/article.html

yes that is one way to do it to mount it from the front and from the back. We want these panels to be as modular as possible.

There is no place inside for the plugs @3HE.
You could either go for 4HE and mount the plugs where the Anfi-tec engraving is at the moment or go for bigger watercoolers so you would have the plugs between the power connectors. To connect one row of Boards is realy easy because you have enough space around the fittings

If you have another idea where to put the fittings please draw or explain it. We are always open for suggestions.

To go from the back to the front we could make some additional holes in the PSU panel

We are not going for big datacentres with these panels Wink

The redundant PSU is realy sweet - But the price for the 2000w redundant PSU is 8 times as expensive (1600 for 1700w) as a good PC PSU(100 for 900w).

Keep in mind that nothing realy happends when the psu fails. Just connect a spare one and you are back in business. (sadly with some lost time).
I guess it would be better to have more miners than 30% less with redundant PSUs.

regards
[Anfi-tec] Finn

Yes, the rack might become more expensive in production but thats not the big factor, the big factor is power cost, not much can be done here and rent for colocation space. And that rent is the big cost factor. So when you can save money for the rent because you buy a more expensive and deeper rack that is using your rent space better then in fact that would be cheaper. I guess.

Im not sure... it looks like watercooling. Are you sure a colocation rack allows these tubes sticking out so far? And you need to draw tubes to the connectors at the end too. I guess that takes space for another 1HU to lay the tubes through the colocation rack. And i wonder if the doors can be closed then.
But i didnt think about how watercooling could be done in a colocation rack. Only came to mind.