Hi All,
We bought a Server Lift "SL-1000X Super-Duty Lift" last year.
https://serverlift.com/data-center-lifts/sl-1000x/
It's powered by a large 12V battery, and uses what looks like a car
winch to move the platform.
The powered functionality is useful, and very nice when you are tired,
but also hazardous; the lift is rated at 250Kg, in our first week we
ripped a slide rail right out of it's bearing by accidentally lifting a
server when thought the bobbins were disengaged. It would have been
obvious on a manual system that something was wrong...
What else, it was quite expensive, but it goes to full rack height, it
has a sliding bed to make it easier to load/unload systems, and with the
Lift Extensions (an extra) we can lift servers out of boxes, and off the
floor.
https://serverlift.com/data-center-lifts/attachments/le-series-lift-extensions/
(PS Hi Tina!)
ta ta
Jake
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+1 for the manual
We had an electric scissor lift in the DC, and exactly that happened -
battery died. More expensive to replace than buying a new lift.
So we got a manual one (making sure it can go to full rack height which
is very useful) - much less likely to go wrong.
Tina
On 19/10/2021 18:40, Robert Taylor wrote:
I like the serverlift, having used one in our colo. If I got one, I
would go with?the crank one. Electric is nice, but when the battery is
dead, you're stuck. Maybe it would have run off of wall power, but our
colo space is all 208v so I couldn't be sure if I could plug it in
there. Don't want to let out the blue smoke.... :-)
On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 12:47 PM Michael Di Domenico
<mdidomeni...@gmail.com <mailto:mdidomeni...@gmail.com>> wrote:
i would love to go oil bath, it's just not in the cards for this
data center
On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 2:34 AM Stu Midgley <sdm...@gmail.com
<mailto:sdm...@gmail.com>> wrote:
we use a gantry crane...
From our install in 2019 :)
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On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 9:34 AM Lux, Jim (US 7140) via Beowulf
<beowulf@beowulf.org <mailto:beowulf@beowulf.org>> wrote:
Do you want one with a scissor lift type arrangement, or
with a "prongs" arrangement (more like a forklift)
For instance, the scissor types have a nice flat surface
that remains level, so you can slide stuff off a table onto
the lift, or from the lift onto a table. But you don't have
access "under" the platform.
?On 10/18/21, 7:33 AM, "Beowulf on behalf of Michael Di
Domenico" <beowulf-boun...@beowulf.org
<mailto:beowulf-boun...@beowulf.org> on behalf of
mdidomeni...@gmail.com <mailto:mdidomeni...@gmail.com>> wrote:
? ? we're using an older genie lift as a server lift
currently.? which as
? ? you can guess isn't designed for servers.? the most
recent set of
? ? compute nodes we purchased are pretty much impossible
to lift by man
? ? (even if that was a good idea) and the genie lift is
getting awkward
? ? in our cramped data center given it's design and server
weight.
? ? i can certainly google for one, but they all look great
in the
? ? glossies.? does anyone want to provide some real world
info?
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