When you need to lift switches the size of pigs

U.S. data center technicians keep telling us they have to lift “pigs.” Not the farm animal; the huge, oversized switches that go well past standard depth. Carrying one of those sideways down a containment aisle is how people get hurt and how a $40,000 line card meets the tiles.

A closed-back lift cannot hold a load that overhangs both ends. A warehouse stacker will not spin in two tiles and will not feed 24 inches onto the rails. The engineering brief for the 600RS was five constraints:

1. 01Keep the tower style so it still rotates 360° in a two-tile aisle.
2. 02Keep the cost in the same neighborhood as the RL600S.
3. 03Hold 650 lb.
4. 04Put about two feet of table into the rack.
5. 05Balance a pig-sized, unbalanced load.

The 600RS is an open-back frame. Nothing in front, nothing in back. The table supports an oversized chassis that hangs off both ends, and you can work the load from either side. A bi-directional sliding tray is there when you need to feed from the front or the rear of the cabinet.

That is the device lift U.S. halls spec when the switch is a pig. Made in USA.