5 Jul
2007
5 Jul
'07
12:26 p.m.
On 5 Jul, 2007, at 18:02, cctalk-request at classiccmp.org wrote:
From: Pete Turnbull <pete at
dunnington.plus.com>
I think the small ones, which are a few kW apiece, do, but the two big
ones (about 60kW) in the machine room don't really filter the air
much.
They're really just meant to keep the temperature and humidity in
reasonable bounds.
Wouldn't have been up to spec back in the old days of reel to reel
tape and exchangeable disk drives but I suppose that's all you need
now. If it were legal, the equipment wouldn't mind people smoking
there, or eating, though of course liquids don't mix too well with
electronics. Especially gassy drinks which explode when you open them.
Roger
After a
few panicky minutes, we realised it was the aircon.
Normally it works hard to cool the room, but it's designed to
maintain a
certain temperature. With all the servers switched off, it was
trying
for the first time in years to heat the place up, and of course the
heating coils were full of dust.
Almost
back to topic, air conditioning systems are supposed to filter out
dust,
so if there was dust in the heating coils, does this means it was not
working properly?