Chapter 13 and 14
CUTTING THE CHEESE? NOPE, ONLY THE CARPET and WATT MORE CAN YOU WANT?
This update is a bit behind, by about 2 weeks. It's just been hard to find the time to compile the post. However, it is what it is, and I do what I can. That said, I enjoy sharing the progress with the great folks here on the forum. Carpet, I feel, was a great turning point. Now, the dust is finally gone, and it's clean work!
I feel the carpet landed, style-wise, exactly where I wanted it to. The front has a cool digital pattern and still maintains a modern feel with a sense of mid-century. The arcade area was tough, I went through so many carpet samples and ended up with what you see in the pics. I am very happy with how well it meshes with the mustard walls and stripes. I feel I am getting that true late '70s vibe I'm shooting for. A friend of mine stopped in and said,
"Woahhh, man, I feel like I am in a '70s roller-skating rink." For me, that's mission accomplished. Can't wait to start populating games. I still have to do the crown to level off the unevenness of the scrim paper and put in a million electrical outlets. In addition, I have to mount 7 TVs (they came in yesterday), speakers, cameras, Wi-Fi, lights, and and and and and... The nice part is, with 30 years of IT and AV behind me, that's the easy stuff.
My buddy Shaun came in to wire up the sub-panels. There are two Eaton panels, 200 amps each, with about 30 20-amp circuits per panel. He did a remarkable job, and they look neat and tidy. I am starting to build out the network rack. I'm going all Ubiquiti for the infrastructure....so switches, firewall, cloud key, and APs are all Ubiquiti. The camera system is Hikvision NVR with 8MP ColorVu cameras. A/V is Origin Acoustics internal speakers, Sony TVs, Sonance amps, Sonance outdoor speakers, HEOS controller, and Atlona video distribution. The server is running Proxmox with multiple virtuals, and mass storage is a 4-bay Synology rack backing up to the Synology C2 cloud. Lots of cool tech.
Hope you folks are enjoying the voyage. Games rolling in very soon. If questions are out there, I am an open book.
