Audio components should be installed into a portable rack case so heat is removed efficiently.
Audio components placed into a rack case can pose a challenge---and an abrupt end to the life of equipment components---if the biggest enemy, heat, isn't addressed up front. Although all audio components generate heat while in operation, the main amplification component in any audio system will generate the most heat out of all other components. Even though most modern portable rack cases come with built-in heat exhaust fans, efficiency can only be obtained through proper arrangement of the components so that fan may do its job.
Instructions
1. Weigh each component, except for the amplifier, and determine which of the components is the heaviest, which is second heaviest, and continue until all of the components have been weighed and arranged, heaviest to lightest.
2. Install the components into the portable rack case from bottom to top, with the heaviest components installed on the bottom and the lightest ones installed at the top.
3. Install the amplifier in the last bay at the top of the rack case. Since the amplifier produces the most heat, and since heat rises, this will prevent the heat of the amplifier from heating up the other devices if it were placed at the bottom. With the heaviest of the other components at the bottom, sufficient counterweight will be achieved so that the amplifier doesn't make the portable rack case top-heavy.
Tags: portable rack, rack case, into portable, into portable rack, most heat, other components, portable rack case
