[AG-TECH] Portable AG node

[Whitson, William I.]

Natalia,

 

Since you're going to be moving your node a lot and lugging quite a bit
of equipment, you'll want a sturdy cart.  Jeff Schwab built a portable
node for us a couple of years ago and used a "Media Director" lectern
from Spectrum Industries - see

 

            
http://www.spectrumfurniture.com/prd/lvl3.cfm?prodline_id=13&cat_id=66&s
ubcat_id=89&subcat=195

 

It's rock-solid (and very heavy), has lockable doors (although we
installed hasps and padlocks for additional security), openings for
cables, and plenty of space to store equipment.  I'm attaching some
pictures of our PIG, affectionately called ArnoldZ, in action.

 

            Bill Whitson

            Rosen Center for Advanced Computing

            Information Technology at Purdue

 

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From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov] On
Behalf Of Natalia Costas Lago
Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 10:12 AM
To: John I Quebedeaux Jr
Cc: ag-tech
Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] Portable AG node

 

 

Thank you very much John for such a detailed description. There are some
points that are interesting for ours.

 

Our mobile node will be used... everywhere. Actually we are thinking in
a 3 projectors setup. Buy 3 portable screens.... The main goal is to
reduce the size of the rack (that means to reduce every item we can
think of), and try to work out some solutions for an easy .. "plug and
play". The cables issue is a big one.

 

We need.. room node quality equipment.. that we can move around easily. 

 

 

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