acoustilock cabinet for silence

[John Fishback]

We use a room adjacent to our edit suite as a machine room. We cool both rooms with the same system year-round. PVC conduit through the wall at two places stuffed with foam to make the pass-throughs virtually airtight. The cable run from computer to keyboard and monitors is about 10 feet. And we have no noise in the edit suite. Be sure to make the wall between the machine room and suite as airtight as possible. Caulk cracks where necessary. Air through cracks transmits a lot of noise.

John

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[Andy Edwards]

The room situation I am considering will not allow for a machine room next door. I totally agree with you that this is a great way to approach it for silence, but this situation won’t allow it. This is one reason I was looking at the acoustilock cabinet for in room silence. I’m just worried that it won’t be able to vent the air properly unless you pump the cabinet air out of the room.

Thanks for your input.

Andy

[John Fishback]

I looked at the acoustilock website and it’s ambiguous about how to get air into the cabinet. It seems to imply that it will extract the room air. I suppose you could drop a vent down in the wall to where the cabinet will be and so direct more air at the cabinet intake. You might even run a soft duct from the a/c vent to the air intake of the cabinet.

John

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[Andy Edwards]

[JRF] “It seems to imply that it will extract the room air.”

That was my first concern. If your room reaches a certain temp and you are not running an AC unit 24/7, does it just recycle the same hot air spewing from the back of your computers and over heat everything.

I use to run one of these in a closet I made into my machine room:
https://shop.howstuffworks.com/products/APC+NetworkAIR+AP7003+Air+Conditioner/SF-1/PID-20743213

It worked well, but now I am a new location with no closet to stick it into to.

I just don’t want to spend $2,000 on a cabinet to get rid of the Computer noise and have heat issues kill all the silence 🙂

Well the search continues.

Thanks

[Jeff Carpenter]

$2,000?

Nah, all you need is a nice cool substance to conduct the heat away from the system. Why not take your computer apart and re-build it in an aquarium of vegetable oil?

https://www.markusleonhardt.de/en/oelbilder.html

[Andy Edwards]

Now that is hilarious!!

Now I have an idea of how to keep my server farm cool. Get that drum of corn oil and dunk it all. 🙂

[Mitchji]

[Andy Edwards] “That was my first concern. If your room reaches a certain temp and you are not running an AC unit 24/7, does it just recycle the same hot air spewing from the back of your computers and over heat everything.

I just don’t want to spend $2,000 on a cabinet to get rid of the Computer noise and have heat issues kill all the silence 🙂
“

Hi,

I looked at these at a trade show. Excellent quality! The box is not going to be worse than the bare computer in terms of recycling heat. A computer pulls in room air and exhausts hot air back into the room. The box will do the same thing. If the room gets so hot that this is an issue you probably won’t be able to get any work done anyway. So I don’t think thats an issue.

Best Wishes,

Mitch