Electronic equipment housing

Abstract

An electronic equipment housing provides easy access to electronic equipment via a hinged top panel and a clear plastic safety panel below it. Inside the housing are cable raceways located at the top front and top rear which are in line with raceways in adjacent housings to permit many cables to be contained inside the housings. The raceways and cables are positioned so as not to interfere with convection cooling inside the housings and with access to the equipment. Relatively high heat generating equipment such as power supplies are mounted to one side of the interior of the housing enabling separate fans to cool the power supplies using a single flow of air while other equipment in the housing is cooled by a separate flow of air drawn by other fans. Common system equipment is enclosed in the housing located at a predetermined one end of a series of adjacent housings. The common housing has a side mounted connector arrangement, with the connectors being mounted on swing out doors or bulkheads for ease of access. The connectors are organized to accommodate cables coming from other adjacent housings to the connectors which have the same length cables. The front and rear panels on all housings have horizontal slots that permit cooling air flow for cooling, and conductive screening behind the slots for minimizing radio frequency interference (RFI). In addition, the top, front and side removable panels have gaskets to suppress RFI signals.