Project Tranquillity

[mashie]

Final update.



After some more MDF cutting making a removable front panel the whole unit was painted. First two layers of MDF primer, then two layers of matt black acrylic and finally a bit of magic (drybrushing with brass and pewter colored paint).





It is quite easy to make a ripple in aluminium mesh, just cut out a small piece with a wire snip and then bend the sharp edges inwards.





Project Tranquillity is done!

For those of you thinking cooling will be an issue, trust me, the nine fans in the PSUs generate a nice little storm across the case. You can also see the short mains leads that has been custom made to keep the wire mess to a minimum.





The management network has been installed and another 10-15 cross-over cables will be added later. The red power buttons are illuminated and act as power LEDs.





And finally, everything assembled and ready to be used.

A clean copy of the worklog can be found here.

[Gordy]

Loving it mashie

[wedge22]

Awesome job there mate, you always seem to make great projects and you can definately use an airbrush.

[mashie]

Awesome job there mate, you always seem to make great projects and you can definately use an airbrush.

Actually I use drybrushing which is a technique using a big 2" brush and very little paint. The whole case is painted with various sized brushes.

[wedge22]

Oh right I remember drybrushing from my Warhammer days mate

[silven]

schweet case man. very nice to see some custom fab goin on at hexus.

[mashie]

schweet case man. very nice to see some custom fab goin on at hexus.

Thanks, I thought I could contribute a little here as well now when it was a competition going and everything.

[unrealrocks]

Its nice Are you just leaving the back open?

What are the plans for it now its done?

Maybe you could add a mah00sive watercooling system to it, just for quietness (And it'd look pretty cool).

[mashie]

Its nice Are you just leaving the back open?

Any particular reason to close it?

What are the plans for it now its done?

To use it?

Maybe you could add a mah00sive watercooling system to it, just for quietness (And it'd look pretty cool).

No need, the cooling for celeron 366 CPUs are not noisy to start with.

[Vimeous]

A very tidy project indeed!
I don't envy you with all the space needed to store and build such a large beast.
In the end what was the completed weight?

[Fat`Albert]

now all you need is a pillow and a blanket and youll have an extra guest bed

amazing work

[jonny4288]

Nice work there but one thing, i see you have daisey chained the psu's.

Wont the power draw be more than a single socket can output, I dont know the maths on this im sure this has been worked out but id like to the know

[mashie]

Nice work there but one thing, i see you have daisey chained the psu's.

Wont the power draw be more than a single socket can output, I dont know the maths on this im sure this has been worked out but id like to the know

Well, these are not fully loaded 800W PSUs They are not even half loaded 140W PSUs and considering a normal 13A wall socket can push over 3000W I see no problems.

[mashie]

What will you use it for?

Some sort of clustered processing?

No, please read the first post again.

[mashie]

A lab with routers simulating a slice of the internet

[jonny4288]

Well, these are not fully loaded 800W PSUs They are not even half loaded 140W PSUs and considering a normal 13A wall socket can push over 3000W I see no problems.

Ah right thanks for clearing that one up