First off. Dont hate the cable mess - still in the process of fixing the beauty of this all
Okay so my home rack sits in a 6m2 room (guess thats around 65 sqft?) in the basement.. problem is, its adjacent to the stairway to the first floor..
GF has started complaining about the noise as the fans turn faster (as she keep closing the door i tell her )
Anyways. Theres two 120mm fan holes in the top that i'v installed 2x noctua 120mm industrial ppc's in to remove the heat. Bought some 1u blinders off ebay and installed those.
I ended up going to my local plumber shop and found some 160mm flexible fan ducting and an adapter from square to round (which didnt fit totally, but some silicone sealer to the rescue!)
First problem was how to make sure the two fans put the air into the duct.. so i found an old plastic box and cut it open to fit it inthere, again, sealer to the rescue and it seemed quite good combined with some containers from harddrives and a bit more cardboard to keep the box down.
Next i drilled up the holes into the side of the wall where the adapter sits over the square hole in the wall going out in the stairway.
Almost final result. Im going to somehow put the ducting up under the rack case itself. Just have to figure out how to secure it without having to make the wall into swizz chese
- The amount of air comming out is actually quite decent.. I was positively surprised that its drawing as much as it is.
Okay so my home rack sits in a 6m2 room (guess thats around 65 sqft?) in the basement.. problem is, its adjacent to the stairway to the first floor..
GF has started complaining about the noise as the fans turn faster (as she keep closing the door i tell her )
Anyways. Theres two 120mm fan holes in the top that i'v installed 2x noctua 120mm industrial ppc's in to remove the heat. Bought some 1u blinders off ebay and installed those.
I ended up going to my local plumber shop and found some 160mm flexible fan ducting and an adapter from square to round (which didnt fit totally, but some silicone sealer to the rescue!)
First problem was how to make sure the two fans put the air into the duct.. so i found an old plastic box and cut it open to fit it inthere, again, sealer to the rescue and it seemed quite good combined with some containers from harddrives and a bit more cardboard to keep the box down.
Next i drilled up the holes into the side of the wall where the adapter sits over the square hole in the wall going out in the stairway.
Almost final result. Im going to somehow put the ducting up under the rack case itself. Just have to figure out how to secure it without having to make the wall into swizz chese
- The amount of air comming out is actually quite decent.. I was positively surprised that its drawing as much as it is.