First, paint the outside of the box white. Can drop the temp anywhere
from 10 to 50 degrees depending on what temp it was before
Second, Put a heat shield in the form of an aluminum plate (also painted
white) mounted with about 1" air gap between your outdoor box and the plate.
Third, add a vent; maybe even with a thermostatically-controlled fan.
Sometimes you don't need more environmentally-tolerant equipment; maybe
all you need is to make the environment a little friendlier.
bp
On 7/1/2010 9:48 AM, Alan Bryant wrote:
I'm curious what any of you guys are using for a RouterOS based device
that can handle 100Mbps or more of throughput that will survive in
somewhat harsh environmental conditions, namely heat& humidity.
We are in South Texas (Corpus Christi area) and at one of our sites we
do not have any kind of environmentally controlled building, just a
wall-mounted box. I do not know what the temperature gets to in there
during the middle of the day, but I can imagine it gets pretty hot.
This site has a 100Mbps BH feed to it and easily averages 40Mbps. We
tried an x86 based machine, but it could not handle the heat.
Any suggestions?
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