1.  How do you remove heat from the units?

The ACL series relies on your room’s ambient air to cool your equipment.  Intake air is brought into the box through an acoustic labyrinth, located on the bottom of the AcoustiLock.  This acoustic labyrinth has been designed to allow very little of your equipment noise to escape.  The fresh, cooler intake air is then circulated across your equipment.  The waste heat from your equipment is pumped out through another custom-tuned acoustic labyrinth, using numerous baffles to absorb equipment noise.  Since this unit uses an air ‘flow through’ exchange, it is able to quickly and efficiently remove a tremendous amount of heat. 

2.  How much equipment can I have in my AcoustiLock?

Each model is rated using Watts of waste heat that it can removed over your room temperature. Waste heat is the heat that is dissipated by your electronic equipment. Most digital equipment is quite efficient and dissipates very little waste heat. Analog gear, in contrast, tends to be less efficient and dissipates more heat. Information should be available from manufacturers regarding their devices' efficiency. Our tests have shown that AcoustiLock could handle all of the "standard" equipment loads that our testers have placed it in.  (aside : Our "TD" units can handle intense heat loads, such as those generated by numerous computers, large drive arrays or Avid systems.  A recent field test showed that with 4 Apple Mac G4s, 6 DigiDrive SCSI drives, and 2 Digidesign 888-24s mounted in a ACL-24-"TD", the temperature inside of the AcoustiLock leveled off at about 78 degrees. (Only a 10 degree rise over ambient!)

An Apple Macintosh G4, for example, dissipates approximately 75-100 Watts of waste heat.  (The power supplies are rated at about 300W Max; so this number makes sense.)   Many noise reduction cabinet manufacturers incorrectly quote the waste heat that their boxes can handle.  Please make sure to question how the numbers are being arrived at. 

3.  How do you route cables in and out of AcoustiLock?

We are the first noise reduction cabinet company to use Cable Channels for our cable routing. Cable channels allow for quick and easy cable routing. 

Simply lay your cables down in the Cable Channels as you hook up your equipment. When done, the Cable Channel inserts easily slide into their grooves, on top of the cables. The acoustic foam conforms against the cables, making a tight seal.

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4.  Is the AcoustiLock a sealed enclosure ?

With the doors and cable channels closed, the ACL cabinets are nearly airtight. A sealed enclosure provides for superior noise reduction.