 So, this is the NavePoint 19U Wall Mount Rack, kind of a mini one. We use the NavePoint ones, we put them in a lot of small businesses and I wanted to give a review of it because some people have said, oh, I like this one or I like that one and I want to let you know why we like this one and why we use it. So, are there better ones out there with higher quality, better rolled steel? Yep, there are. You can pay four times as much for these. These are under $200, I'll leave a link on Amazon where you can get them and we've used them for a lot of small offices that don't have a lot of things going on and don't need a giant rack and also the complaints I've seen about these type of things is when people like go to paint job or this or the steel isn't quite as polished on the sides, I'm like, it's not, it generally goes in a closet, it gets locked up, it gets touched a few times and then unless anything goes wrong, it just sits there. So I don't always know the reasons why people want to spend a fortune on them and have these really expensive ones. These actually are pretty solid, it does not flex, it does not wobble, I did not lock the door, so that happened. So let me lock the door on this, now that it's closed and I'll do that same thing again and show you. Alright, now that the door's clocked, I'm leaving that in there, I'm going to do that out. They are pretty solid. Now this is a glass one. If you're doing this for security, they have non glass ones. Glass obviously someone can come up, tap it, break it. I like the glass ones for looks so you can see the lights inside of there without opening up. They do come with keys, I'm sure these are pretty pickable, they're generally just so someone doesn't walk by and open it. Now speaking of keys, we'll actually start there. Here's two keys, two more keys, two more keys. I don't know why, but they give you six keys. So if you need to distribute these, maybe it's because they're hard keys to copy, but if you need to distribute keys amongst all your IT friends that may need access to it, you've got plenty of keys here. If you do manage to lock yourself out of this because you have no keys, as long as you can get in one side you can start unscrewing it, but you can just start taking apart the top again, which is a real pain, but if you somehow manage to lose all of the keys, you can do that. Now, a side note too, I've seen this before with different cheap racks. These keys actually seem to be unique. I actually just tried these in another rack that we have assembled on the other side of the wall here. Don't work at them. So they do seem to be somewhat unique keys with enough different sized teeth that there's some variety. I'm not going to say you won't buy two of these and they won't be close enough that you will be able to get them matched. They're not a high security key at all, but like I said, these are not designed to be high security devices. Generally, these are on the walls, in a closet, in a server room, or a really small server room in the case of something like this. And you're not going to have a locked door anyway, because once they can get into here, the wires feed into here and things like that, so people have some physical levels of access. Lock the door to the room. We have these in a few other cross-connect rooms that will be in-between. So you have the server room and maybe you have another MDF room in-between and that's going to be like another jump point where you're going to run one of these. We just did a warehouse like that that's fairly sizable, so they have their server room at the front offices. And then way on the other side, we have one, so to speak, home run line. You can run a fiber liner, however you're going to do that, connecting the other end of the building. And then we have one of these on the wall to connect all the machines in that room, so we didn't have to pull the entire length of the building for every cable run. And that's often where we'll use these. And it's actually, we needed a man lift to put that one up there. It's way up on about 20 feet high, like I said, it just sits there and looks pretty. They'll don't know if someone's messing with it. So if you want to lock it, now that being said, the door itself, let's open it back up this time because I want to. Not because I'm tipping it over, get the key back in here. The door is reversible and let me show you that real quick. And even doing it from a weird angle, let me do it easily in front. I've reversed the door. I can put it on the other side, still lock it, everything works the same. I like that they didn't put any rating on it. So we actually put our company stickers are going to go on this. That way people know who to call if there's ever a problem. That's part of the branding we do. Now, once you're inside the case, it's like any other 19-inch rack. I'm going to take the sides off, oops, they pop right off. Easy enough. So when you, oh, by the way, if you didn't notice when I unlock it, there's these two buttons on the side. You just pop these in so it doesn't fall off. They're just little plastic holders or not. They're plastic. They get the job done. Like I said, you could punch it hard enough and maybe you knock it out so they're not super well made. I know I've seen some of the expensive racks, but they're really high quality. And I do like precision machine things. But I've seen some of those cost like $500. And I'm like, it's going to hang on the wall. And once you've got it done, it's done. Now, depth-wise, they come in a few different depths. And there's a couple of adjustments. Now, these adjustments only go a few inches in either way. But basically, it's how far the face of this is from the door. And you have to think about that because you need to leave. And this is enough room right here. We're going to have short jumpers. So when you rack mount the equipment in here, you have enough to jump it to the patch panels that come in there. So you can adjust it and slide it a little bit further back if you need it. Like I said, they give you a few inches of adjustment. That way, if you have a deeper device, you can get it pretty far back. Or if you need one, they sell a wider versions of these. Narrow versions for short throw things, wider version. An example would be, I've done reviews on the UniFi equipment. And they're 24 is not quite as deep as they're 48. It has a few more circuit boards in there, so it sticks back a little further. So you can adjust it to accommodate that. One thing important whenever you're planning these type of jobs, measure. Figure out what equipment's going in it and buy the appropriately sized one just so you have a little bit of forward thinking. Now, this does have a couple fans up here, and that's what this cord right here hanging for. The fans are OK. They are 120 volt fans. I don't know the millimeter on them, but they're the larger ones. I'll leave it in the description. You can click on the case. They're not super quiet, and I don't have an easy way to reference how loud they are for you. So it's not like I can really give you the best idea, but they're noisy. So if you don't want this above your head, you don't want to have a desk sitting below it with these fans on. That being said, we don't always use them. So it really depends on the equipment, if the equipment's even generating any heat. There's not sometimes, in particular, where this was being installed is in someone's office. It's an air conditioned room, and they just want everything not to where it is, because it's all kind of messy. And we're just cleaning it up, put the rack on the wall, all the equipment will go in here. Now, this has a few punch outs on it. So you can punch it out through the back. There's some small holes in the back, where you can take the entire back plate itself off. So there's not actually any punch out right here. It's all, I'm sorry, I'd say in the back, I meant on top. So only this one punch out on the top to bring all the cabling in. But we've done before is just not have the back on here when it's flush mounted to the wall. And then we'll run all the wires through the back of the wall to bring them on here. Now you're mounting it to the wall to make it a little bit easier. They got this. And this is the plate that you bolt to the wall. And it's got these little ears on it. And these ears, there's a spot on the back that is sliding to actually I'll spin around and show you. So pretty simple there, but let me close this door so it doesn't flop on me again. If you're wondering what the mat is, that is so it doesn't slide around and scuff up our table. Also, it does come with a bag of screws and the square rack mounts, or standard like for 19 inch rack mount. And it's got the little squares on it that squeeze in there. So those do come within a handful of them. So you don't have to buy any to get a few things mounted. And this is spinning around for you. So here's how this part goes in on the back. And as you see it just sits in there. So you get this plate bolted to the wall real well. You can just take the rack and hang it up there and done. It's solid. And like I said, there's just these couple of screws holding this back plate in. And if you don't want the back plate at all because like I said, instead of pulling the wires down through the top for that clean look in an office, you can do that. We actually, in our office, we did it by putting a conduit tube into here because it would too hard to get things to the wall. That way it comes on a ceiling and we keep all the wires concealed. Best part of the goal is to really keep these clean looking. Also, because you're generally mountainies with a small gap towards the ceiling, you're not dealing with a really big spot where you're seeing a lot of wires. As long as you have clearance for the fans if you're gonna use the fans. Bottom of the case, nothing exciting. I bolted together on the bottom of them just to show you. But it has the same thing as it has on the top and other spots. So if you're pulling the wires through the bottom, you can get them right through there. And then you tip it over for the top again. There's your two fans and that. Now, one little comment is I'll leave a picture of it here. The way they do the fans is weird. They're a little scary maybe. I don't know, I don't worry about it too much. But I will point it out that they just use a little screw block for the fans. Now, the fact that they're using a screw block means the way they tie the wires together, if you touch a screwdriver that's metal to it, it will conduct the 120 onto there. So that's, I guess, a safety hazard? Nothing I would particularly worry about. Once you've got these closed up and locked up and there's no one holding a screwdriver to the back inside, it's an edge case. Like you can always find someone to do something dumb. Someone could stick a screwdriver in a plug hole. I don't know. That's something I really concerned myself with, but I did see some complaints on Amazon about it. I'm like, well, I guess, if you want to complain about it. They do include an Allen wrench. All the screws on here are Allen heads. So they include the wrench that you need to do it. We have, having assembled many, many of these, we have it on a drill because it makes it faster for assembly. Now these come flat-packed pretty, unfortunately we actually did an unboxing and with a time lapse and I forgot to hit record, my bad. So I don't have the assembly of this, but they ship it pretty flat. I got a picture of an Amazon that comes flat-packed in a box, pretty small. Assembly's not that hard. It comes with some instructions, but you kind of get it together and figure it out. Follow instructions in order, by the way. If you put other pieces in before other pieces and because you think you know better because we're all smart technicians and we always know better than whoever wrote the instructions, you will find that, oh yeah, you have to take that thing back off to get the other thing in there. So if you assemble the outside without assembling what thought you could put from the outside, you'll find yourself backtracking. Follow the instructions, RTFM, my friends. But I just want to give a quick overview of these for people always wondering, you know, where do I get one? Why should I buy an expensive one? Why should I buy a cheap one? If you want a really nice fit and finish where you're not worried about any little edges scraping you, by the way, I'm not cutting myself on these, but compared to a really high-quality rack, yes, these are a little bit rougher. They're not quite as smooth. You're gonna get a better fit and finish on a real expensive one. But how much does that matter? Should I spend four times the price for some expensive brand-name one because it's amazing and all that? I don't know, that's kind of a you decision. I'll let you guys decide that. But if you're looking for something that's very affordable that just goes up in a closet most of the time, and actually, this one's going in office kind of up in a corner area. It's a really small business and they have a giant rat's nest of wires and just a, they have a switch just sitting there. So you're already visioning it. Every one of you, if you've been in IT for any length of time, you've seen the piles of wires and things like that. This is a very inexpensive way to come on in there. It's gonna take my wiring guys gonna probably spend about only two or three hours to install and clean this up. It's actually, it's one switch and eight devices plugged into it and a Comcast cable on them. That'll all fit really nice in here. We're just gonna mount the switch. Starting a rack mount switch just happens to be sitting on a table. He'll mount the switch. Though the Comcast in here, you'll be able to see the lights through the glass window so they'll still know if Comcast is down and who to yell at or if the lights are blinking in here. And that's it. That's simple, we're done. We will have in here too. We usually put one in here. It's really nice if you wanna buy the plug. Rack mount ones, those are really nice. They're just gonna have one switch because it really is just one strip. So it's just a lot of times we'll go in here. But because it is 19 inch rack mount, depending on the budget of the client for any time you do say any high end you usually get the rack mount plugs which are really nice. If you haven't seen them, they have generally a, they look like a flat plate on the front and then they allow you to plug all the devices in the back that way everything has a really nice clean place. But with all the little holes they have on this including, and we put it to the side here. With all the holes they have on the side at least plenty of spots to use some zip ties. So once we get in here, any of the cables, wires, everything gets tied really, really tight inside here. So we only have to have one plug running in. All the plugs are real tight. We zip tie everything. We don't want any slack. So when it's all done, it's a nice clean mount and it's good to go. But like I said, these NavePoint cases we've been buying them for a while. We really haven't had any issues. Once in a while because of the way Amazon ships thing we've seen minor little dings in them. This one actually has it and you probably couldn't even see it because we just had to fix it. But if you look right here, it was a big hole in the box and that's the only little divot. So that does occur once in a while. It's not enough that we wanted to send it back. I looked at it and we were like, well it's not that noticeable and no offense to the customer but his office is a little rough. So I don't think he's gonna complain about tiny little ding in there. You know, for some of our larger corporate clients everything has to be perfect but just take that for what it's worth and a decision on there. But these are great for the price. We actually keep them, well a lot of times keep one in stock that way when we see a cleanup job which is because we're so into the small business market we come in and do a lot of cleanups for these small four or five person offices and they're ready to say, okay I'm done having my friend do the IT and he left this giant pile of everything everywhere and these are easy inexpensive boxes knock them out in a few hours and put them up there and get clients cleaned up and just looking a lot more professional. And it's so much nicer once it all looks like this. So hopefully this was helpful to you. I wanna start reviewing more of some of the commercial equipment or rack equipment that we put up there. It is on the goal list to get more of those videos out. I wanna do more onsite. That's just, that becomes a big challenge because it takes me away to go with them and my other guys don't really film. They are focused on working and knocking out jobs because they're very, very busy. 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