All Articles Tagged Equipment Racks

CE Pro Editors | 08/31 12:05 PM, 0 Comments

CE Pro and Middle Atlantic Products want to show off the best racks in the fourth annual Great Looking Racks contest. We want to feature the best A/V racks you've ever built in the November issue of CE Pro. But while the back of the rack always gets the most attention for great wiring, we want to see what you've done to the front. Maybe they’re tricked out. Maybe they solve unique installation challenges. Maybe they use neon lights or feature a monitor. We want to show off your work!… View this story

Robert Archer | 08/11 05:25 AM,

Efficiency and versatility are more than buzzwords these days for installers, they are necessary traits that must be incorporated into today's product market. Middle Atlantic, a New Jersey-based manufacturer of racking systems and accessories has taken these ideals to heart with the introduction of its BGR Series of equipment racks. The company first introduced the line at the recently completed InfoComm commercial electronics trade show and it is now shipping the products. Middle Atlantic says the line can be used for commercial and residential electronics installations, and it says the… View this story

Arlen Schweiger | 08/04 09:09 AM, 2 Comments

Santa Barbara, Calif.-based Central Coast Audio Visual was originally brought into this project to replace four outdoor televisions, and its “Neat-O” work and professional work ethic led to a whole-house retrofit project. Regarding the outdoor TVs, the original integrator had installed standard TVs, and over a year’s span in the sunny Southern California climate every one of them had failed, says CCAV owner Chris Wilson. So the seed of this project was their replacement with SunBriteTV all-weather displays. “At this point we thought our project was over,” Wilson notes. But… View this story

Rachel Cericola | 07/07 10:21 AM, 1 Comment

With a growing AV collection, your clients' racks could use a little girth. Sanus is now shipping the Foundations CFR144 AV Rack. Boasting up to 44U of space, the new rack is specifically designed for custom AV component installations. The CFR144 stands 85 inches tall and can fit five 1U shelves and eight 2U blanking panels. It can also hold about 1,000 pounds of AV goodies. Other features include a three-section back panel with wire management and removable panels, a lockable tempered-glass door, and a convection cooling system. It also… View this story

Arlen Schweiger | 06/10 06:48 AM, 0 Comments

Each year our sister publication Electronic House’s Home of the Year Awards allows us to view some of your most incredible projects. We had so much fun going through the entries to pluck out four fully stocked, but super tidy, equipment racks and mechanical rooms for our last Neat-O column that we decided to go for an encore. Photos: Best Racks of HOTY We've rounded up another quartet of fine rack installs controlling sophisticated systems. Click here for 4 Gorgeous Racks. Congratulations to these Home of the Year entries for… View this story

Steven Castle | 06/09 08:28 AM, 1 Comment

For installer Michael Wackernah of Limitless Systems Inc. (LSI) in Huntington, N.Y., this 24,000-square-foot retrofit project was an Olympic test of endurance, attention to detail and control (both emotional and technical). “He’s the CEO of a profitable technology company, so he’s always on his game,” Wackernah says, adding the client double-checked LSI’s work, and required them to vacuum behind drilled drywall. Needless to say, this retrofit involved a lot of extreme vacuuming, because LSI retrofitted nearly everything, including a 65-inch Samsung 3D TV wired through an 8-foot-wide stone fireplace. LSI… View this story

CE Pro Editors | 05/09 07:12 AM, 0 Comments

Each year our sister publication Electronic House's Home of the Year Awards allows us to view some of your most incredible projects. The overall homes, home theaters, outdoor spaces and more showcase fine work—especially the carefully appointed equipment racks. Since we love to show those on this page of CE Pro, here are some examples from this year’s wealth of entries. Projects include entries from: Audio Video Interiors Home Media Electronics Design Group DSI Entertainment Systems See Best HOTY Project Equipment Racks Congratulations to these Home of the Year entries… View this story

Arlen Schweiger | 03/23 08:15 AM, 1 Comment

Here’s a twist on the often repeated tale of the professional integrator cleaning up a project after the cable guys: the professional integrator doing a project for the cable guys. It’s a good thing for Comcast that Centennial, Colo.-based Logic Integration put in, and eventually won, the bid to outfit the provider’s Denver call/command center, too. Had the corporate cable guys stuck with their original plan, the call center workers might have quit already. According to Logic Integration CEO Shawn Hansson, Comcast was planning on purchasing four TVs from Best… View this story

CE Pro Editors | 11/12 08:58 AM, 1 Comment

Every installer appreciates a nice rack. And boy do we have some to show off. Our fourth annual "Show Us Your Racks!" contest, sponsored by Middle Atlantic Products, provided some of the greatest racks we've ever seen. We've rounded up the winner and runners-up with racks of all shapes and sizes, including racks hidden behind smoked glass doors and racks on a yacht. Also, make sure to check out our past "Show Us Your Racks" contest: 2009 | 2008 | 2007. Click here for the Greatest Racks of 2010. Editor's… View this story

Steve Crowe | 10/21 06:59 AM, 6 Comments

Have a 103-inch plasma descend from the ceiling? Ben Henkel and his team at Integrated Systems (iSys) in Tarzana, Calif. didn’t know if it could been done. Panasonic’s titanic plasma had mounting holes for its own wall-mount system, but not for any commercially available motorized lift on the market. A lift would have to be completely customized. So Henkel turned to Art Walker at Activated Designs in Valencia, Calif. to make something that could carry the 485-pounder. Walker built a pretty standard but heavy-duty lift that uses a rack-and-pinion like… View this story