Questions about a rack

goku2100 · 09-29-07, 08:31 PM

First of all I was wondering if it is important to ground your rack or not. Second of all I wanted to know that since the rack supports around 1ton of equipment, for a given area in a typical home, how much weight can it support before it could collapse the floor?

Don_Kellogg · 09-30-07, 01:02 AM

iRaq is a small sandy country in the middle east, aside for that I believe racks are rated for a certain amount of weight my Mid-Atlantic is somewhere around 300#'s

reedl · 10-01-07, 11:06 AM

1 Ton? That's 2000 pounds. What the heck are you putting in your rack?

Reedl

DoyleS · 10-02-07, 03:15 PM

This question is really more about your home than the Rack. Homes are typically designed to have a safe uniform load of 40 pounds/sq foot. Now don't get concerned with that low number because that design means that the entire floor can have 40 pounds per sq foot on it. So a 10x10 room could be safely loaded with 4000 pounds or 2 tons. As mentioned in a previous post, a typical load in a rack might be a couple hundred pounds. How or why you want a ton in a rack is not clear. You might want to make sure the rack supplier agrees with that level of load. Your individual home could be an older home where the 2x10 floor joists were actually 2x10 instead of being 1.5x9.25 like they are now. There are too many factors to give you and easy answer. We all know that a 300 pound person could stand on any of our floors without it having a problem. We could also have 8-10 200 pound people in a 10x10 room with no problems.

..Doyle

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reedl I spent too much $$$ Join Date: May 2004 Location: Hudson, MA Posts: 520	1 Ton? That's 2000 pounds. What the heck are you putting in your rack? Reedl __________________ Check out my theater! My Theater Here is the Arcade: The Arcade

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DoyleS AVS Special Member Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Sunnyvale, CA , USA Posts: 1,714	This question is really more about your home than the Rack. Homes are typically designed to have a safe uniform load of 40 pounds/sq foot. Now don't get concerned with that low number because that design means that the entire floor can have 40 pounds per sq foot on it. So a 10x10 room could be safely loaded with 4000 pounds or 2 tons. As mentioned in a previous post, a typical load in a rack might be a couple hundred pounds. How or why you want a ton in a rack is not clear. You might want to make sure the rack supplier agrees with that level of load. Your individual home could be an older home where the 2x10 floor joists were actually 2x10 instead of being 1.5x9.25 like they are now. There are too many factors to give you and easy answer. We all know that a 300 pound person could stand on any of our floors without it having a problem. We could also have 8-10 200 pound people in a 10x10 room with no problems. ..Doyle __________________ "So many tweeks....So little time!"