quintinza

quintinza OP t1_j82z92r wrote

Reply to [OC]The effect loadshedding has on my server room temperatures. I generally run my room between 23C and 25C, but with loadshedding it skyrockets and I only realised how much when I used a phidgets temperature sensor to graph how the temperatures change during loadshedding. by quintinza

Tools used:

Python, with the phidgets library to read the sensor.

Visualization made in Google sheets.

Data sources:

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quintinza OP t1_j82ymh4 wrote

Reply to comment by 64sweetsour in [OC]The effect loadshedding has on my server room temperatures. I generally run my room between 23C and 25C, but with loadshedding it skyrockets and I only realised how much when I used a phidgets temperature sensor to graph how the temperatures change during loadshedding. by quintinza

I put the sensor on the inlet side of the server room, to see what the incoming temperature is.

And yep, South Africa.

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quintinza OP t1_j80embo wrote

Reply to comment by flerchin in [OC]The effect loadshedding has on my server room temperatures. I generally run my room between 23C and 25C, but with loadshedding it skyrockets and I only realised how much when I used a phidgets temperature sensor to graph how the temperatures change during loadshedding. by quintinza

Today it was 38C outside when I left, and inside it was 28.8C in the server room. This was at 16:30 and the aircon switched off at 16:00.

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quintinza OP t1_j8013oc wrote

Reply to comment by flerchin in [OC]The effect loadshedding has on my server room temperatures. I generally run my room between 23C and 25C, but with loadshedding it skyrockets and I only realised how much when I used a phidgets temperature sensor to graph how the temperatures change during loadshedding. by quintinza

It's a rolling blackout. The aircon is not on backup power, so the aircon goes dead when the power goes off.

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