That was the outcome of my study. Sent from my iPhone
> On Jul 2, 2021, at 12:36 PM, Sterling Jacobson <sterl...@avative.net> wrote: > > > Huh, we have one site with a large tree shading it and it seems to do a lot > better. > > Are you saying it is not worth it to completely shade the cabinet vs. just > painting it Sat White? > > From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Chuck McCown via AF > Sent: Friday, July 2, 2021 12:20 PM > To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> > Cc: Chuck McCown <ch...@go-mtc.com> > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Solar and shade for AE Fiber Cabinet > > 20+ years ago, I set up 4 identical outdoor enclosures. Temp telemetry. > Some live load, don’t remember the details. They were about 24” cubes. All > started out as gray. Tried sun shields, exterior insulation, vents, fans, > peltier cooling modules. Silver paint, white paint. The overwhelming #1 > thing that lowered temps was the satellite white paint. By a long stretch. > Then filtered powered vents. Silver paint was worse than gray. I wonder if > the railroad still used silver. Sun shades did little to help if the box was > satellite white. Interior styrofoam insulation helped a bit, not much, but > was cheap and easy to add to the white paint. > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Jul 2, 2021, at 11:39 AM, Sterling Jacobson <sterl...@avative.net> wrote: > > > Super hot out here in Utah. > > My fiber cabinets running Active switches are getting harder to maintain and > AC units on the side of the cabinets are starting to fail faster. > > I’ve had the thought of shading them with a permanent four post structure and > a reflective white painted cover to shade them from the southern sun exposure. > > Then I thought, well, maybe it might be interesting to “shade” the cabinet > with solar panels as well. > > Is anyone doing this? > > The AE cabinets all have Alpha FXM 15 or 20A units running the UPS to a > string of four 12v AGM batteries. > > I do have limited rack space in some of these available since the batteries > sit in a slide out section below. > > Haven’t done solar in like a decade since I had remote WISP type sites. > > Is this doable to offset power costs and also get the temp down for the > cabinet? > > Or is it just a huge time suck and money pit for no real return? > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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