1 Nov
1998
1 Nov
'98
1:15 p.m.
On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Tony Duell wrote:
A couple of hints for anyone else mad enough to move
such machines..
1) PCBs are suprisingly heavy, or at least a full set for a CPU or
something is. Pull the boards and carry them separately.
The CPU wasn't bad between two people.
2) Slide rails are also heavy. When you've taken
all the units out of the
rack it's worth unscrewing the rails/cabinet fans/power distribution
system, etc. Makes the rack a lot lighter.
The racks weren't bad between two people with the rails and the lower
power distribution modules installed.
OK, separating the 11/45 power supplies is not that
easy, but here goes
(in case you ever have to do it).
<...>
Now unscrew the fan mounting screws on the 3 fans over
the regulators.
The fans come out downwards into the space where the regulators go.
Unplug the 115V power wires (red and white) from the fans. Remove the
fans, pull the wiring out of the PSU.
This is where we were unsure. We didn't want to go through the bother of
unscrewing all the fans (and it was about to start raining again at any
moment...we were working under a tarp) and based on how everything else
was interconnected, we didn't want to find out that there would STILL be
something keeping us from separating the two supplies, so we just bit the
bullet and carried them up together.
Unscrew the hour clock fixings and the PSU cableform
bracket from the
cabinet. Remove the cableform.
See, I knew there would be something else. Whoever designed this was
a schmuck. It could have been made way more modular.
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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