Bought a rackmount UPS off Facebook Marketplace without checking if it had a 5-20P plug instead of a standard 5-15P, and now I'm stuck rewiring my whole circuit or spending another $50 on an adapter.
I put a $40 rack shelf under a 35lb UPS and it bent like a taco inside a year, so why does everyone keep buying these instead of spending $15 more on a solid steel one from a server pull?
I was just checking my Ubiquiti dashboard this morning and saw 50 devices online at once. That includes all my family's phones, laptops, security cams, and a few IoT gadgets. I built this whole setup in my basement last summer with a used 24 port switch and a repurposed gaming PC for Plex. Honestly I thought my little 1500VA UPS would give up way before now. Has anyone else been surprised by how much their home gear can actually handle?
I was dropping off some old monitors at the Austin recycling center last weekend and spotted this dude unloading a whole server rack from his truck. He had this janky setup where he used a window AC unit and some dryer ducting to push cold air into the front of his rack. I asked him about it and he said it dropped his temps by 15 degrees compared to just fans. Has anyone else tried rigging up a portable AC to cool their gear?
Was at a friend's place last month helping him rack a new switch, and he just casually said 'you know stacking fans in the back is just recycling hot air, right?' I had 6 Noctua fans crammed into a 12U rack thinking it was genius cooling. Actually measured temps after rearranging to a push-pull setup with proper gaps. Dropped my CPU idle temp by 8 degrees Celsius. Now I actually measure static pressure instead of just slapping fans everywhere. Anybody else fall for the 'more airflow' trap at first?
He said it dropped his temps by 6 degrees ever since he flipped them around, has anyone else tried reversing their fan direction on a budget rack?
I was helping a buddy redo his home rack last Saturday and spent an hour cutting zipties off a patch panel. Those plastic straps wreck the cable jacket over time and you cant add or move a single wire without clippers. A 100 pack of velcro strips costs like 8 bucks at Home Depot and you can reuse them a dozen times. Has anyone else had to dig out a ziptie clean up session from a previous owner?
Walked past a guy at Micro Center last weekend telling his friend that and I wanted to ask him how many drives he's toasted trying that theory, has anyone here actually run a rack without fans for more than a year?
I picked up a used APC UPS off Craigslist for my home rack thinking I was being smart. Got it home, plugged everything in, and the battery died within 10 minutes under load. New batteries cost more than the unit itself, so now it's just a heavy paperweight. Anyone else get burned buying used UPS gear?