Rack Cabinet Guide

Outdoor Cabinets

Thermal Management in an Outdoor Cabinet: Fan, Heat Exchanger or Air Conditioner?

Whether a fan is enough or an air conditioner is needed is not a budget question but a single subtraction: target internal temperature minus peak ambient. Positive and a fan works; negative and no fan ever will.

Floor-Standing Rack Cabinets

Wall-Mount or Floor-Standing? Choosing the Rack Cabinet Mounting Type

This question usually gets answered with “is there room?”. The real answer comes from three constraints — weight, depth and service access — and all three behave differently on a cabinet hanging from a wall.

Power Strips (PDU)

Choosing a Rack PDU and Power Strip: How Many Sockets, Fused, C13?

The quietest design mistake in a cabinet is on the power side: one faulty device taking the whole cabinet down happens because nobody planned for it — and planning for it costs one fused power strip.