Since the switch is in your office, if you’ve got the vertical space for it, I would highly recommend adding a large fan above the asic. These switches aren’t hot because they put out a ton of heat, they’re hot because they’re 1RU and they’re supposed to go in a datacenter where noise doesn’t matter.
And now for a second question as I get further along in the process here with my ICX 7250-24. Is the temp reported in show chassis accurate? This seems way hotter than it should be with nothing connected and no PoE:
It's worth noting that I did swap out the stock fan with a Sunon 40mm x 20mm KDE1204PKVX (8200rpm, 10.2 cfm). The stock fan had a fairly annoying coil whine to it and this thing sits fairly close to my desk. I assumed it wouldn't be that big of a hit to thermals on a 24 port switch without PoE. Thoughts?Code:The stack unit 1 chassis info: Power supply 1 (AC - Regular) present, status ok Power supply 2 not present Fan ok, speed (auto): 1<->[[2]] Fan controlled temperature: 86.8 deg-C Fan speed switching temperature thresholds: Speed 1: NM<----->98 deg-C Speed 2: 67<----->105 deg-C (shutdown) Fan 1 Air Flow Direction: Front to Back Slot 1 Current Temperature: 87.4 deg-C (Sensor 1) Slot 2 Current Temperature: NA Warning level.......: 100.0 deg-C Shutdown level......: 105.0 deg-C
I'm going to open it up and look at cleaning / reapplying thermal paste (assuming that's a thing you can do).