Installation of the network cabinet
In order to accommodate the whole thing neatly and tidily, I talked myself out of the tangle of cables until I could no longer hear my own thoughts and put a cheap 19″ cabinet in the shopping cart. As I wanted to keep the whole thing as cheap as possible, I put supposedly “secondary” things such as quality or the depth of the cabinet to one side and simply ordered a very simple 12 U cabinet from EFB Elektronik. However, I couldn’t do without all the accessories, so I also ordered a few panels, brush strips and screws.
While the delivery of the cabinet from some external warehouse of a not particularly popular (but still frequently used) online store with a blue logo took some time, the necessary preparatory work could be done in peace. I had installed a new sub-distribution board in the cellar as part of the cellar renovation and of course I also got a separate new supply line for the network cabinet. Before anyone grumbles: It’s a storage room in the basement, so the installation doesn’t have to look like the one in the catalog.
After more than a week’s wait, the wardrobe finally arrived and was immediately torn out of the box after work. The first impression: disastrous! The sheet metal was as thin as a can of Coke, there were broken edges (acute risk of cutting) on several corners of the glass door, the plastic frame for the lock was broken and not even a brush strip for the cable entry was included. It is what it is: you get what you pay for! Nevertheless, I couldn’t wait to assemble the cabinet and once it had been “bombed” to the wall with massive hexagonal screws, a certain stability was achieved. To avoid the risk of heat build-up in summer temperatures (and the network storage that might “eventually” follow), I installed two leftover Noctua Redux fans, which are powered by a 12V power supply unit and are only switched on when needed. This may be controlled by sensors at a later date, but for now it should only serve as a safety measure. The assembled cabinet:
All the components in use at the time have now been installed: The old 10″ patch panel (pay particular attention to the wooden adapter, which is completely reprehensible in terms of fire protection), the 24 port switch and the FritzBox on a 19″ shelf. The remaining height units were neatly closed with blind covers and, of course, cabinet lighting was installed.
After all, hardware without RGB is no longer conceivable in 2024, is it?
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