Laboratory 24/Infrastructure

We moved in on Friday the 16/07/2010.

Landlord

The centre manager is Ted Kerr (07730 200 260).

Council

We currently don't pay rates, as the rateable value is £5250 + £400 for the parking spaces, and this is our first property.

Phone Service

There are two phone lines in the space:

• 020 7613 5391 (main phone, broadband)
• 020 7729 5134 (unconnected)

Phone service is provided through M-Line, who are a great little BT reseller. Any problems, ring them up and ask for Strachan (pronounced straw-n). Say Russ Garrett sent you.

Networking

Internet is provided by Be - we have the Be Pro service on a 1 year contract (started 18/07/2010).

IP:      93.97.176.250
Netmask: 255.255.248.0
Gateway: 93.97.176.1
DNS 1:   87.194.255.154
DNS 2:   87.194.255.154

The BeBox is operating in bridged mode with all routing handled by the Fonera.

Our internal network operates on the 172.31.24.0/23 range (this is registered with ChaosVPN).

We also advertise and route IPv6 within the space. This is currently tunnelled to Hurricane Electric. The account is currently with Mark, but will be transferred shortly.

IP prefix: 2001:470:92f1::/48

We do not use DHCP for IPv6 at the moment, so do not provide automatic rDNS. Servers are set up for DNS under hack.rs, which is also currently with Mark.

The switch is a 3CR17501-91

Electricity

Initial meter reading: 251818 (16/07/2010) 254055 (12/10/2010)

Unit 23 readings, 2011/01/06:

red phase meter: no. L82A 52092 Reading: 13974.17 yellow phase meter. No. L82A 46898 Reading: 39426.37 Blue phase meter. No L82A 12901 Reading 30877.19

Water

No. 99T043076 Reading 00233.10323 No. 99T043073 Reading 05402.62862

Alarm

We don't use the alarm controller, but we do use the 12V UPS and sensors for the door controller. Much of the existing sensors and cabling is still in place.

• Fuller details on alarm cabling

UPS/PSU

The UPS model number is 1381N.

• 12 volts, 1 amp output, 1.5 amp maximum (including battery charging)
• Mains LED (green) indicates that mains is connected. Extinguishes if disconnected from mains or mains input fuse is blown.
• Battery Stand-by LED (amber) indicates that unit is operating on battery stand-by. (does it? It's on all the time. seems to mean the battery is fine, unplugging the mains certainly powers the circuits off the battery, and the battery can't have been powering it the entire time...)
• Output Fault (red) indicates that output fuse fault or battery fuse fault. Further LED (red) on PCB shows battery fuse failure.

• UPS data sheet

Sensors

Conveniently, stripping the alarm out has left lots of useful wiring all over the building. We're already using a pair of wires to trigger the door release; there are plenty more cables though, some even wired into useful sensors (PIRs and door open/closed magnets)

Notes

Floor plan

• Main Room: 400 x 1140
• First Room: 350 x 690
• Front bit: 55 x 110
• Dirty shop: 350 x 720
• Back room: 250 x 400
• Fridge hole: 60 x 110

Lighting

• Unit 24 tubes are L36W/23 or F36W (commonly known as "4ft slim")
• Unit 23 tubes are F100W, except the kitchen which is F36W (as unit 24)
• No toilet lighting in unit 23
• The strip of lights in unit 23 second from unit 24 flicker
• Two starters are missing in unit 23 (one of the strips closest to unit 24)
• There are spare starters underneath the consumer unit (fuse box) in unit 24, but these are only suitable up to 65W and will not work in the large F100W lights in unit 23.

Procedure for improving infrastructure

• Get quote for item(s)
• Discuss on irc/mailing list
• Check finances with Russ or other Director
• Purchase item and obtain reimbursement / have item purchased directly from funds
• Install item