A room average is not a cabinet inlet
Original diagram. Not a site record.
A room can be cool on average and still feed a cabinet a temperature the equipment does not accept. The average is a calculation. The inlet is a place. If the claim is about the cabinet, the point has to be the inlet a person would walk to, not a tile in the aisle and not a mean of the room.
Models and screens both make this substitution because the average is easier to plot. Easier is not the sentence. Write which point the decision uses. If the report's supply is a stub, or a return, say so and refuse the inlet claim. Do not rename the stub because the color is acceptable.
The same split applies when a facilities tile disagrees with a probe in your hand. Do not average them. Write both, with both times. The walked reading wins until the other point is corrected. A model is not above that rule. A monitor is not above it either.
Standards that define thermal classes may be cited by title and edition when the contract already names them. Their tables are not reconstructed here, and they are not read off a color scale.
From Judge a Data Hall CFD, Tristan, Data Center Field Guides. No store link until the Kindle edition is listed.
Related: A CFD picture is not a measurement.
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