Show Me Your Equipment Cabinets

pelphrey · Jan 10, 2017

Great thread! I am fixing to implement an equipment cabinet myself. I just need to figure out what direction I want to go in. I have the Red Sea Reefer 250 and have plans to swap the sump out and possible use the entire stand cabinet for the sump. If I go through with this I'll need a cabinet to hold my equipment and ATO container.

Keep the idea's coming!

s2nhle · Jan 10, 2017

ReefRescue said:

wow, this must be from an electrical engineer. Very well organized.

Shmoopy · Jan 10, 2017

Centerline said:
Ok, so that's pretty slick. I was considering doing something like this with a set of blade servers that I have. Are those rails stainless and are you using a retractable cable management harness?

Thanks, the rails are commercial grade drawer rails from the big box store. I was in the process of finding the cable guide like on a cnc machine but looping has worked fine and lack of need has kept me from making that upgrade yet.

ReeferDude916 · Jan 10, 2017

Ikea cabinet hack.

Rick Mathew · Jan 10, 2017

JustaClown said:
My lil' set up still in the works.

Rock curing stages in the DSA 200

Awesome!...nice an neat

s2nhle · Jan 11, 2017

Wow, very neat and clean.

jimmy2times · Jan 12, 2017

ya i need me a lil help with organization don't know how some of you guys do it. my only excuse its a new sump system in my basement thats needs some organizing i guess you could say

dragonfish · Jan 18, 2017

dragonfish · Jan 18, 2017

jimmy2times · Jan 18, 2017

Think I need some help on my organization skills maybe just s lil

s2nhle · Jan 19, 2017

Wow, very organized and clean.

tropicaldreams · Jan 23, 2017

Steve1310 said:
thats my frag tank set up I'm working on now

are you distributing from the wall outlet to all those outlets within the internals of the cabinet?

revhtree · Jan 23, 2017

Nice folks!

hatrick20 · Jan 28, 2017

Mines still a work in progress. Just added the cerebra so I haven't completely finished moving and organizing all the wiring. The best thing I added was the rev a shelf pullout shelves and the pullout contertop.

jimmy2times · Jan 28, 2017

Really like the pullout shelves that's really nice looking man

JBradford · Jan 30, 2017

@hatrick20 that's slick!

pelphrey · Jan 30, 2017

This thread inspired me to move all of my equipment out from under my tank. This past weekend I sat aside 2 hours and got it done... Finally!

Second energy bar mounted inside the cabinet-

Need to clean this mess up!

Equipment cabinet in place!

I'll get before and after shots under the tank stand soon! I will be going back and cleaning up the cables inside the equipment cabinet soon. I had to take my system completely down to do this move and I wanted to get everything back up and running quickly!

Jhuggins · Jan 30, 2017

I copied many people from posts like these. I love how easy it is to turn on feeding mode now.

Don Lidtke · Jan 31, 2017

I really like the idea of using drain pipe! I am going to see how can incorporate this into my build.

Don Lidtke · Jan 31, 2017

davescrews said:
The box is the NBA-10176 from BUD Industries NEMA Boxes - UL/NEMA/IEC NBA Series | BudInd

I drilled out the side and bottom to accommodate a cooling fan, cords and ventilation. The panel the the controllers are mounted to is just a piece of 1/4" acrylic that I routered out and painted.

I'm not sure if I have more pic's of the building process with the box or not, I'll look later today.

Thanks for the positive feedback!

I really like the idea of using drain pipe! I am going to look into using that on my build.