Small Comms cabinet idea

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#311271 1-Jan-2024 12:57

Hi,

Looking for ideas for a small comms cabinet to go freestanding beside my working from home desk to house things like some Raspberry Pis, Philips Hue Bridge etc, just small things I want to house and tidy up. Main requirements would be skinny so it fits into a particular gap, few shelves and options for cable management/cable ties etc.

I'm not looking for a comms cabinet to rack mount things, just a wooden style cabinet, similar to the one in the pic below I found online.

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#3176701 1-Jan-2024 14:06

Not quite a cabinet but certainly something i've used for positioning my simple gear inside a closet;

https://www.kmart.co.nz/product/bamboo-pantry-shelf-large-42879879/

https://www.kmart.co.nz/product/bamboo-pantry-shelf-small-42879893/

https://www.kmart.co.nz/product/2-tier-bamboo-pantry-shelf-43150724/

Briscoes two level shelf

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#3176779 1-Jan-2024 16:36

Nice ideas and actually the kind of thing I'm looking for.

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#3176789 1-Jan-2024 17:30

For my daughter, I just screwed a couple of plastic wire spice-jar racks on cupboard wall ... held modem, router, power adapters and and external drive.

About $10 each from Storage Box I recall.

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#3177030 2-Jan-2024 08:32

Tinkerisk:

That could work, know where you got that pic from?

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#3177056 2-Jan-2024 10:34

CB_24:

That could work, know where you got that pic from?

Random pic from amazon (unfortunately here in Germany).

I often use cheap metal letter trays (i.e. from ikea, but far too expensive in NZ compared to here and the shelves need to be turned upside down, front handles can be used for labeling or swapped to the rear) for simple, compact setups for my customers who appreciate it (not everybody uses/wants 19“-Racks). The FritzBox router is always placed on top because of the unobstructed WiFi radiation. And you have to come up with something for the network cable routing (i.e. cut through the back and line with scouring tape).

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#3184581 20-Jan-2024 22:37

CDLNZ make some reasonable 10" wide data cabinets

R10WM9D is the model we use. They also have a range of accessories for them like shelves, patch panels etc.

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