You know when your sitting around, talking crap about things?
One thought leads to another & before you know it your miles away from where you started.
Happened last weekend to me. Telling a mate about the controller & fans I picked up for the tank,
Started talking about hooking up a power supply & what size to order for the controller, considering it was meant to go into a PC chassis lol.
After getting the power supply sorted I had the thought, (& it's lucky Jen wasn't here) why not just hook up a PC to the tank?
Covers a housing for the controller & both 12v & 5v for the fans & controller in one go!
Brilliant idea I thought & that's what David & I were talking about lol. It started to grow from there....
Me: Why not just use a PC?
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DavidS: But all the other stuff is rack mounted mate
Me: Sooo, I can hide the PC in the server cabinet can't I?
David: What if we use a server mounted PC?
Me: Nah, cost to much lol
David: What if we pull your old PC apart & build that into a old rack mount PC case?
Me: Hey that's not a bad idea!
David: I was joking lol
Me: I wasn't! Lets do that!
David: I've got a rack PC case we can use
Me: I've got the old PC.....
About then Jen came in & could tell by the look on my face that I had something planned lol.
So anyway, I'm dribbling again,
This is what David came up with,
My old PC has been butchered to fit into the rack PC case. The screen above the PC will not be used, this was just to get the thing up & running. It will be hooked up wireless so we can log into it from the main PC & from any other PC through a simple web browser.
This is the view when you log in from another PC. The pic above was with the whole setup at Davids place, the one below is me logging into it from Melton.
So now the plans are made to have a PC hooked up to the tank, the thoughts have started about what else we can get it to do! Well ...I'm thinking of projects for David to get up & running because I'm crap when it comes to PC's, they come from Harvey Norman don't they?? You don't build one from scrap you have around the house lol.
So now we just have to find a 27RU white server cabinet lol.
Just thought I'd share the ideas lol
Ken & Jen:)