I'm renovating an amp rack this week to integrate some new toys including one RMX4050a driving a pair of LS1208 subs. The RMX cools back to front, while the rest of the rack populated with four 17y/o Crest CKS400s cools front to back. I went into this with eyes wide open because I like the RMX and have options in this installation if it causes cooling issues, but this is the first time I've mixed amp models at all so I'm wondering how concerned I should be about the airflow, and what a reasonable, somewhat conservative approach would be.
This rack can have open front and back in a clean and secure room that stays between about 65 and 72F all year. Nothing's going to get pushed hard other than brief theater sfx and me rocking out by myself occasionally. Probably pretty "typical" academic program material. I don't expect to ever bridge the RMX and it will surely be pushed the least of all in most programming.
Should I not worry at all, close my eyes and throw the RMX in the rack wherever, or should I be concerned to any degree about cooling? If the latter, here are my followup questions:
Is the concern so great that I should put the RMX on its own outside the rack?
If not, should I leave some space between the RMX and the CKSs and how much (could do 6U easy, maybe 8)?
Better to put the RMX above or below the rest, or doesn't matter?
Should I funnel all the hot air into the CKSs until they go poof and replace them with something sexier?
This rack can have open front and back in a clean and secure room that stays between about 65 and 72F all year. Nothing's going to get pushed hard other than brief theater sfx and me rocking out by myself occasionally. Probably pretty "typical" academic program material. I don't expect to ever bridge the RMX and it will surely be pushed the least of all in most programming.
Should I not worry at all, close my eyes and throw the RMX in the rack wherever, or should I be concerned to any degree about cooling? If the latter, here are my followup questions:
Is the concern so great that I should put the RMX on its own outside the rack?
If not, should I leave some space between the RMX and the CKSs and how much (could do 6U easy, maybe 8)?
Better to put the RMX above or below the rest, or doesn't matter?
Should I funnel all the hot air into the CKSs until they go poof and replace them with something sexier?