cooling switches

We have our switches in a little phone closet, which also has a transformer. The room is ventilated and has a fan. It was never made to house computer equipment, so it still gets a little too hot for the switches.

Moving the switches and the cabling to another room would be a huge hassle and expensive. Im looking for an easy way to cool the switches or even the room.

It's just two 48 port netgear switches. It would be nice to just find some little enclosure that could hold them and keep them cool. not easily finding anything like that though...

I saw a flat laptop cooling pad, but not quite sure that would work for a switch.

Any advice appreciated!

 

Google ductless air conditioner, or depending on the setup, a regular window ac might work for ya.

 

Now windows in the room, but that AC might just work. Thanks!

Another quick question if I may: how much will pointing a regular fan at the switches cool them? The room isn't insanely hot. Just probably 10 degrees too hot. Barely uncomfortable. A fan is tacky, but very cheap. Just wondering if it would do that much good.

thanks again!

 

You need a way to exhaust the air from the space. Get a HVAC engineer in, because even a ductless will not do the job, due to the unit needs to fit on the wall properly, and be sized for that space. In reality, the equipment should be in a room min. 6-7 foot wide, and around 8-10 feet deep.

 

The room is that big. A little bigger. There is a ventilation system and fan in the ceiling. So there is ventilation. Enough for a transformer, but not for the switches.

 

How much ventilation?If the room has a nice outer wall you may want to consider a couple of extractor fans,one exhaust fan will be pretty useless such as a shower extractor,I'd install an intake at the ground level and an exhaust at almost ceiling height.

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Rikky, they are still going to have to find a way to clean the air from contaminates from coming in from outside. A true "clean room" for computer equipment, should be pressurized to not allow outside contaminants from entering through ducting, and should have the proper filtration in place to help keep the equipment running for the long term.

 

Of course and micron particle filtration system with an airlock:-D I agree if you were building a clean room but I just came up with something that was cheap and easy as the brief stated.

 

I still would not pull fresh unclean air from outside, regardless what I am trying to cool inside the structure. Most offices I work in, are considered industrial type locations for their equipment, due to the rooms are not as clean as they should be to keep containments from entering the space, other than what the HVAC system does to keep the space cooled & pressurized from the rest of the airspace in the office.

As for the other person, hodging a system together, and putting in vent fans for a bathroom, are not the proper way.