Shade will always help, but for the dollar, you want paint, then insulation.
Adding shade to that combo was a waste of effort if I recall correctly. A bit
counter intuitive.
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> On Jul 2, 2021, at 12:47 PM, Bill Prince <part15...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I think he's saying that if you don't have shade, then the white paint is a
> winner.
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> bp
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> On 7/2/2021 11:36 AM, Sterling Jacobson 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.
>>
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>> On Jul 2, 2021, at 11:39 AM, Sterling Jacobson <sterl...@avative.net> wrote:
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>> 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?
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