One of the most common problems associated with server rooms is the overheating of server room equipment that can cause costly and potentially disastrous consequences. Learn how the University of Louisville’s Health Care Outpatient Center used DENSO MovinCool’s ceiling-mounted spot cooler to control the temperature in their server room in DENSO MovinCool’s Health Care Server Room Case Study.

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The University of Louisville Health Care Outpatient Center, in Louisville, Ky., had a problem with their server room overheating. The 8-by-12-foot room houses server and telecom equipment that is vital to the center’s daily operations. The equipment runs 24 hours a day, and must be kept cool at all times to avoid malfunctioning, hardware damage or system downtime.

The problem surfaced when, in an energy-saving effort, the set points of the building’s central HVAC system were adjusted to turn the system off at night. As a result, equipment in the server room became excessively hot and was shutting down at night, incapacitating the health-care center for hours at a time.

The building’s facility manager knew that continuing to run the central air conditioning system to cool only one room would be too costly, so he contacted Joe Dotson, service account manager of Scarborough Mechanical Services, Inc., the Louisville firm that had installed the original HVAC system, to propose a solution.

In evaluating the available choices, Dotson excluded a…>>Read More