On 08/19/2016 11:45 AM, Stu Midgley wrote:
my questions is maintenance;
do i need a rubber suit to even touch anything or lest ruin my
pants everyday?
No, I never use any protective clothing. My colleagues sometimes do.
It really depends on what your doing.
The fluid comes out of your clothes with dry cleaning.
even with lidded tanks do you find the oil aspirates and gets all over
everything?
No. The fluid has a really low vapour pressure, so it doesn't get
anywhere unless their is a problem. IF you get air in the system, you
can get large bubbles, which can splash a little oil... but it usually
just falls back into the tank... no harm done.
IF you accidentally drop a 1.5m long 20kg fan door from a shelf 1m
above a tank, you can get large waves and get some fluid over the
sides of the tank ;)
That sounds oddly specific.
It only takes a few minutes to clean up (we use a cheap wet-vacuum and
then filter the fluid back into the tank).
But that doesn't that still leave a slippery film on the floor?
You can get small droplets in the air if you use something like a
gear-pump to transfer fluid into or out of a tank. Don't use gear pumps.
does the oil reduce hardware failure to such an extent to make these
questions negligible?
Not quite, but almost. We have gone through several "move every node
to another tank" processes... and it wasn't that bad. We also
upgraded every node with more phi's, which meant taking them out of
the tanks, stuffing around and putting them back in.
How did you keep the oil from dripping on the floor during this? Did you
put some kind of absorption pads on the floor between the tanks? What
does 'stuffing around' mean? Does that mean wrapping them in 'stuffing'
or is that Australian for something else?
i hadn't bumped into anyone that could answer those two questions from
a LARGE installation standpoint. but if you've got >1pf in oil, i'd
say you have a card in this game.
To be fair, 1 drop of fluid does appear to cover the entire floor, but
we use normal absorbent wipes and pads and have them on the way out of
the room. We also wash the floor every couple of weeks with
sugar-soap. Its no big deal.
Where I work now is extremely safety conscious. That would not go over
well.
--
Dr Stuart Midgley
sdm...@sdm900.com <mailto:sdm...@sdm900.com>
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