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How to Lock an entire rack out except one component
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Post 1 made on Thursday March 13, 2014 at 23:11
3PedalMINI
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I did a service call on a site that was done by an area competitor that quite frankly should be hauled to jail for installing the crap he does, infact it was so bad he changed his name and "rebranded" the company.... but i digress.

This job is at a 55 and older community, literally laughable but how he took advantage of this community is BEYOND me. There is a rack that houses the equipment (and subwoofer, yeah a subwoofer in the rack) I got it working for them a few months ago but it was only a band-aid. The property manager emailed me today asking about ripping it out and starting over, the only caveat to this is due to the way the building is layed out and health concerns of the residences that use the club we are not allowed to poke holes everywhere to run the wires to a rack in a back room (sigh)

The rack is located in the lobby (weird layout) and the residences use this for various activities like Bingo, Movie Night Etc. One of the key things is allowing these people to put in their own CD's and home movies (mainstream movies are strictly prohibited for obvious reasons)

Is there a clean way to lock out components with some sort of cover? I only want to give access to the CD/DVD player. There will also be a larch Touch Screen panel in the top of the rack, currently the mx650 tends to grow legs and walk off :-) Im sure MA has something, im just too tired and frustrated with HDMI issues to look, spent the last 15minutes doing it.
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Post 2 made on Thursday March 13, 2014 at 23:35
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I have never seen something like what you are describing. Is the rack on casters? What about mounting all the other components behind blank panels? Sure it makes it harder to service, but it sounds like the priority is keeping the other equipment out of harm's way.

I wonder if you used doors that were shorter than the rack, if you could mount them with a gap in the middle where the shelf for the CD/DVD player would sit. Say you have a 44U rack. Buy 2 21U doors and mount one at the top and one at the bottom leaving a 2U space between. You may have to get custom with the mounting, but that is what the C in CI is for, right?
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Post 3 made on Thursday March 13, 2014 at 23:40
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Middle Atlantic used to have these mesh covers that would go over the rack shelf and get screwed in with safety torque screws. Equipment goes in a custom faceplate shelf. And then this cover goes over. Slick

We used them all the time at DOD and in municipal projects to keep fingers off my shit.

A 1 ru gets a 1 ru cover.
A 2 ru gets a 2 ru cover.
See the patern.
Priceless
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Post 4 made on Thursday March 13, 2014 at 23:46
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[Link: middleatlantic.com]

Not priceless :)
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Post 5 made on Thursday March 13, 2014 at 23:51
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On March 13, 2014 at 23:46, Audiophiliac said...
[Link: middleatlantic.com]

Not priceless :)

While those will work it is not what I was using. No key required. It was a very tight mesh screen that comes out about 1 1/2 inches for front knobs clearance
Ed will be known as the Tiger Woods of the integration business, followed closely with the renaming of his company to "Hotties A/V". The tag line will be "We like big racks and tight holes"...
Post 6 made on Friday March 14, 2014 at 00:05
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Post 7 made on Friday March 14, 2014 at 00:12
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How about a front rack door with a cutout on the front to access the DVD player? A jigsaw and a few hours can do wonders.

Or lock the rack up and set the DVD player on a shelf next to it.
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Post 8 made on Friday March 14, 2014 at 00:39
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How about a regular rack that has a rear door. Using rear rack rails mount the gear in the back as if it where the front. On the front put blank covers with security screws all the way up to the device they can touch.
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Post 9 made on Friday March 14, 2014 at 01:29
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Depending on the rack you could mount a second set of front rails and mount all the gear recessed and then put blank panels over the gear on the first set of rails.
Post 10 made on Friday March 14, 2014 at 01:38
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Lock the rack completely and put the DVD player somewhere else.
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Post 11 made on Friday March 14, 2014 at 01:53
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Like on top of the rack.
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Post 12 made on Friday March 14, 2014 at 01:55
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Security cover, get those to match with shelves U heigh. Buy a bag of 50 torch screws with center security pin.
Post 13 made on Friday March 14, 2014 at 03:36
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On March 14, 2014 at 01:38, sofa_king_CI said...
Lock the rack completely and put the DVD player somewhere else.

Winner.

Lock the rack up. Mount a 2U rack shelf (face against the wall using the rack screw holes to mount it to the wall) to the wall next to the rack with a wall plate behind it for HDMI and control wire (emitter?)
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Post 14 made on Friday March 14, 2014 at 03:37
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On March 14, 2014 at 01:53, Ernie Gilman said...
Like on top of the rack.

As long as the rack isn't too tall. People start to shrink once they hit 70.
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Post 15 made on Friday March 14, 2014 at 08:12
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On March 13, 2014 at 23:11, 3PedalMINI said...
I did a service call on a site that was done by an area competitor that quite frankly should be hauled to jail for installing the crap he does, infact it was so bad he changed his name and "rebranded" the company.... but i digress.

This job is at a 55 and older community, literally laughable but how he took advantage of this community is BEYOND me. There is a rack that houses the equipment (and subwoofer, yeah a subwoofer in the rack) I got it working for them a few months ago but it was only a band-aid. The property manager emailed me today asking about ripping it out and starting over, the only caveat to this is due to the way the building is layed out and health concerns of the residences that use the club we are not allowed to poke holes everywhere to run the wires to a rack in a back room (sigh)

The rack is located in the lobby (weird layout) and the residences use this for various activities like Bingo, Movie Night Etc. One of the key things is allowing these people to put in their own CD's and home movies (mainstream movies are strictly prohibited for obvious reasons)

Is there a clean way to lock out components with some sort of cover? I only want to give access to the CD/DVD player. There will also be a larch Touch Screen panel in the top of the rack, currently the mx650 tends to grow legs and walk off :-) Im sure MA has something, im just too tired and frustrated with HDMI issues to look, spent the last 15minutes doing it.

Since DVD players are so cheap, now, why not mount it on top with a set of brackets or a cover, made of sheet metal? Call a sheet metal shop and ask about fabricating something that can be painted.
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