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AV Rack for areas with no rear access, Accuride Installation

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#1 ·
Hi All,


Just finished installation of an Accuride Rack system. For me this was great as I lacked rear access at the location I needed to install the rack. This is basically a top and bottom slide out which you put a cabinet in between. The cabinet rides on rails and slides out and rotates 45 degrees for full access to the rear or front of the rack. This thing is not cheap, I am into the rack and DIY cabinet made from high end Birch plywood for over $600. They claim it will hold a total of 300 lbs of equipment. It comes with a nice cable carrier in the back that scissors in and out when you pull the rack out to keep the cables from getting cut. Sorry, poor choice of word, scissor, especially around cables :).. But I am now happy! After all said and done this is pretty sharp. Only problems I had was not allowing enough length for several of the speaker cables. You need quite a bit of additional cable length to allow for the slide action of the rack. Also, for a 7.1 system there are few to many cables for the cable carrier/slider. I had to improvise a little on the placement. Found this on the web at a wood working- http://www.rockler.com/ecom7/findprod.cfm?sku=11184


This image is of the sliders installed with no cabinet.
http://img209.exs.cx/img209/9950/racksliders9it.th.jpg

This one has the cabinet installed on the sliders
http://img156.exs.cx/img156/8360/cab...ders1rk.th.jpg

Picutre of rear of the rack with wiring
http://img156.exs.cx/img156/4130/cab...inal1of.th.jpg

Picture of the front of the rack with components
http://img214.exs.cx/img214/589/cabi...inal7pd.th.jpg

Picture finished all that remains are the wood trim pieces that attach to the slider to cover the edge space
http://img214.exs.cx/img214/2387/cabinetfinal3si.th.jpg
 
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#2 ·
Big Blue,



Very nice set up and features. If I may, I would like to express a couple of concerns though. One may of which already be addressed (difficult to tell due to pic size), that is air circulation... I think I see a fan at the top. Does the fan provide "positve or negative" air flow to all the components? My concern as the lack of ambient airspace between shelving for heat exchange.


The second concern is the bundling of all your cables together. If I am seeing correctly you have mixed your audio and video carrying cables together, and those along with your AC cables. This may cause "crosstalk" or EMI/RFI issues. Try and make cable runs with "like-signals'. A/C power cords and AC Transformers to one side of your rack. Speaker cables together, separated from video signals... keeping a 4" space between runs a rule of thrumb.


Be sure to use enough cable length to create a "service-loop". This allows for your cables to be looped a couple times in the back of the rack so when you extend your rack out for servcie you have slack without straining your cables.


You may want to bundle that AC cord a little tighter (like a bow-tie), simply looping AC cords can make a nice powerful electro-magnet...not friendly to sensitive signals and keep the other A/C cords a minumum of 4" from surrounding parallel video/audio cables.


Again, you have a very nice rack system that you should be very proud of it... awesome job!!!
 
#3 ·
Listening,


Thanks for the suggestions. I tried to keep the power vs. audio/video cables separated as much as possible. The cable carrier (not seen) in the back of the cabinet is not that friendly for wire seperation. But I will be adding new components now so will keep your suggestion up front. For heat dissipation, I also drilled a star pattern of 5 x 1/2 inch holes in the center of every shelf to help keep the heat moving. The fan is a bust for now, it is way to loud and will need to be replaced. I had it pulling out blowing into the empty space behind the rack.
 
#4 ·
Wow. That Accuride system is exactly what I need for the built-in shelving in my family room/theater. Unfortunately it's a bit too wide for my setup, so I'd have to do some major modifications to make it work. Made me wonder, though, if anyone makes a similar slider system that would work for just one shelf. I'd love to be able to pull out and turn the shelf that my receiver sits on, so I could get to the back.
 
#5 ·
Hey Blacter,


Search Accuride on the web, maybe the offer one narrower. But my Yammy amp just fits in the cabinet at this width. Not sure how your going to fit a big Receiver in a smaller cabinet, stand it on its side? :). This one can't be modified by width only height is adjustable.
 
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