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Shelf 3 - KVM & Switch


I needed some place in the middle section height wise of the shelf to connect all the computers to the KVM switch. This seemed like a good place for it, and it worked out nicely. With the spare room - I also put the gigabit ethernet switch on this shelf. Both are free floating on this shelf.
This free floating ended up becoming a problem. After it was all powered up and running, I was moving the rack (nice to have wheels). As it was moving, it arched the KVM power module onto the metal screw holding the shelf in place. After a panic moment of thinking I toasted the enter rack, I realized:
  • I neeeded to put electrical tape (its red - as you may seen in photos) over all screw heads holding shelves down. No need to have this reoccur with something else.
  • I needed to put electrical tape on the bottom of this power module.

After a while of use, I noticed I had fried the top shelf audio components. Bummer, but better than everything getting ruined.

Here is the planned layout:


Here is a picture of this computer's shelf.

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