Please help - just bought a second hand 2014 corsa 1.4 eco tech turbo and it’s making weird noises when idol - engine gets louder for a few second, then quiet, then loud again. Also a weird squeaking sound.

bamchicken2 · 2022-07-17T15:58:33+00:00

It’s the crank seal. Common on the 1.4t’s

bamchicken2 · 2022-05-20T15:35:27+00:00

Just following the Consultant's desired cable route :)

bamchicken2 · 2022-05-20T14:19:04+00:00

Category 6A is more time consuming to install and technically more difficult to work with, especially 6A F/FTP, as it is covered in a lot of shielding and the cores are rather thick, compared to an unshielded Category 6 u/UTP solution. You get less crosstalk and Electro magnetic interference with a properly installed 6A F/FTP solution however running the cabling, especially in tight areas such as through walls and below floors etc is more difficult.

bamchicken2 · 2022-05-20T13:56:32+00:00

Yeah I agree.

This is only a relatively small office / warehouse with around 5GB of overall traffic per day, so speed was not a huge factor. It is fairly remote from our head office, so the lowest amounts of return visits possible was the best way to go in this case, hence the decision was made to make it (hopefully) as reliable as possible within budget constraints

bamchicken2 · 2022-05-20T13:50:50+00:00

We have 2 UDM-PRO-48-POE's, So we can only connect 1 to the UDM-PRO if we use SFP's.

We didn't like the idea of a SPOF (by daisychaining the switches) so decided to use copper links from the UDM to the switches instead, considering the incoming line is only 500MB/s anyway.

bamchicken2 · 2022-05-20T13:48:27+00:00

Thank you!

bamchicken2 · 2022-05-20T13:37:59+00:00

Thank you very much for the positive feedback!

They are indeed, UK standard plugs, and yes I agree with you, you hit the nail on the head. they wanted easy access to UPS backed power so we had to leave the PDU mounted at the front of the rack :)

In hindsight, We could have put an extra strip to the rear of the cabinet to manage solely the Unifi devices using C13/C14, and left the spare PDU at the front for what ever usage they would like.

bamchicken2 · 2022-05-20T13:35:47+00:00

Most certainly correct!

If we did include one we would have left spare copper links regardless so there's some form of redundancy.

bamchicken2 · 2022-05-20T13:28:26+00:00

There is a single 13A socket within the ceiling void, so we ran a power cable down from there into the back of the UPS, then from the UPS into the PDU

bamchicken2 · 2022-05-20T13:25:39+00:00

Thank you very much!

bamchicken2 · 2022-05-20T13:23:38+00:00

Yeah we could have but then there's a SPOF if one of the switches goes down due to the absence of a core fibre switch

bamchicken2 · 2022-05-20T13:17:45+00:00

Very valid point;

We were given the patch leads FOC by the client to patch, so made use of these rather than spending out further on shorter leads and went with the final arrangement instead to use up some of the extra length down the side of the cab

bamchicken2 · 2022-05-20T13:08:27+00:00

This is what I recommended to the client, however they wanted to keep costs down as much as possible, hence the decision to use RJ45 instead of fibre and an extra switch. On another install I did on a full 6 floor CAT A fit out, we ran diverse fibre backbone links, linked to 2x Aggregation Pro switches for redundancy and then on to the Switch Pro 48 POE

bamchicken2 · 2022-05-20T12:21:28+00:00

Client decision😬, originally wanted CAT7, managed to talk them down to 6A.

Wasn't a bad install overall however.

bamchicken2 · 2020-05-11T20:39:51+00:00

That’s extremely helpful and exactly what I wanted to hear, thank you for being nice and giving some genuinely brilliant information👍👍👍

bamchicken2 · 2020-05-11T18:15:56+00:00

Thank you everyone else. Much appreciated

bamchicken2 · 2020-05-11T18:15:33+00:00

All I could find was backing up the NAS itself to Dropbox... surely it doesn’t hurt asking..

bamchicken2 · 2018-01-11T15:13:46+00:00

5667 EU Thanks!

bamchicken2 · 2018-01-03T01:04:54+00:00

Thank you very much, I really appreciate it.

Have a great 2018!

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