Quicklok 2U Rack Blanking Panel
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The store is open 10am - 6pm Monday to Saturday and 11am - 5pm Sunday and bank holidays.
The stock information shows the quantity of units that are available to purchase at the Guildford store and the quantity of units that are available at our off-site Guildford warehouse. These stock levels are updated in real time.
Our Click and Collect service is available at our Guildford store from 10am - 6pm Monday to Saturday, and 11am - 5pm on Sunday. You can either choose click and collect as your delivery option online or, during store opening hours, call our sales team at 01483 456777 to place a 10% deposit.
If you have placed your order online, you will receive a confirmation email of your order and a separate follow-up text or email to confirm when your item is ready for collection.
Please do not come to the store before you have received the follow-up message, as your order may not yet be ready at the store.
If the only available stock is in our off-site warehouse it can be brought to the store location for you to try - you just need to contact the store within opening hours. Please note any requests received after 3.30pm will not arrive at the store until the following morning.
Please be aware that, unless you have paid a deposit to reserve the item, it will continue to be free, both online and in-store, for another customer to buy. Therefore we would advise you to place a 10% deposit by either using the on-line click and collect service or calling us 01483 456777.
SKU: RS242
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Product Description
2-Space blank panel with flanged edges, for 19" rack stands. These panels block off unused shelves on your rack, this in turn helps the cooling unit regualte the temperature of the rack and stop your processors overheating.
From a cooling perspective, it does not matter what material your panels are made of, as long as they cover the open rack unit space and prevent hot air from recirculating to the front of the rack.
Technical information
The most straightforward justification for using blanking panels is made by looking at the rack-level power usage when blanking panels are not used. A CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) model was constructed to predict temperatures resulting from a missing 1U server with no blanking panel covering the void. Without the blanking panel, hot exhaust was free to recirculate back through the rack and into the adjacent servers. This picture shows the CFD model results, displayed as a side view of the rack. The model predicts that it affects the two servers above and below the gap. The increased temperatures experienced by the adjacent servers cause the internal fans in each server to speed up to compensate. This results in increased energy usage and lower efficiency.
Specifications
- Height: 8.9 cm) (2 rack space (3.5")
- Color: Black