MovinCool Keeps on Movin' and Coolin'

Heat is the enemy of any high density computing platform, such as the kind one encounters in telecom, providing services to homes and businesses. If you were to peek into data centers around the country, you’d probably find that most have expanded in size right to the limits of their respective facilities’ cooling capacity.

 

Back in my days at Computer Telephony magazine in the 1990s, we used a clever air conditioner-on-wheels device called a MovinCool (News - Alert). MovinCool the company (www.movincool.com), with American offices in Long Beach, California, had made a name for itself specializing in portable “spot cooling” systems, which are portable devices that let you direct cool air exactly where it’s needed.

 

As I recall, our “war room” had one of their Office Pro Series, such, the Office Pro 12, which had programmable digital controls allows the units to work automatically after-hours and weekends. The device conveniently ran on 115 Volt power and it could be rolled into any room that had to be cooled to the low 60s F. The device could spew forth 12,000 Btu/h of cool air at less than half the cost of a central air conditioning system. Larger units were available up to 60,000 Btu/hr.

 

Recently, those great times came back to me as a copy of a new, expanded MovinCool product catalog crossed my desk. The new product catalog offers complete features and specifications of all MovinCool industrial spot air conditioners and accessories in a single 12-page catalog (which can be downloaded at www.movincool.com/catalog). The catalog covers the MovinCool PC7, Classic, Classic Plus and Office Pro Series of portable spot air conditioners, as well as the latest CM12 model, said to be the industry’s first ceiling-mounted spot-cooling unit.

 

MovinCool’s portfolio of portable spot air conditioners provide emergency, supplemental and seasonal cooling and moisture removal for various applications, including server and telecom rooms, data centers, offices, warehouses, assembly lines, manufacturing processes and outdoor events. Moreover, MovinCool’s ultracompact, ceiling-mounted CM12 spot air conditioner offers an efficient solution for applications where space is at a premium, such as server and telecom closets.

 

MovinCool, which claims to be the world’s largest manufacturer of spot air conditioners, is a brand of DENSO Corporation, a US$40.2 billion company headquartered in Kariya, Aichi prefecture, Japan, that employs about 119,000 people in 32 countries and regions. In the 1980s, DENSO pioneered the concept of workspace spot cooling to meet its own factory needs in Japan. Since then, MovinCool has developed a wide range of portable and ceiling-mount air conditioning systems for many different applications. For more information, visit their website.