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Goggles:
I just got my cabinet today and it resides inmy garage.

1. My garage has been cold enough to freeze water before, infact it's frozen bottles of water that was inside my car that's in my garage.

2. Canadian Winters even in Toronto where I live can get to around -20C and even colder with the winds.

With that in mind I was wondering which is better for my cabinet;
- Keep it turned on to keep warm
- Turn it off, save the electricity as it can do fine in a garage over a cold winter.

Or some of your other advice.
chopps:
move to Vancouver where it doesnt get cold =P

Goggles:
Anyone with a legit answer?
It's getting dark and colder as the night is upon us.
BobA:
I'm in Edmonton and it was -35C last week.  This week it is 6C.  The biggest problem with keeping it ON is some parts will not be warm and any condensation that might form or drip on live circuits can destroy your cab.  Keep it off and let it warm up before turning it on.  Clean out the mice and whatever else may collect in the winter.

Just my own opinion based on keeping cabs and computer gear in an unheated garage over the winter.

BobA
RayB:
OK the real story here is who is forcing you to keep this in the garage? Eh? Eh??  ;)

I live in Cambridge, ON (45 min west of Toronto). A couple years ago I was living in a townhouse and I kept my Galaga machine in the garage. It survived, but I will never do that to a machine I care about ever again. The moisture rusted some of the grills on the back door, and also rusted a bit of the transformer and the clips on the fuse block.

Game still works, but every time I see that rust I just wanna kick myself. (And keep in mind, this was in a garage used as storage. It's not like we kept opening the door all the time and parking a wet car in there!)

So, as was already said above... it will be fine, provided you let it warm up and dry out thoroughly before you turn it on again. But if you want to avoid rusting, you might as well wrap the whole thing up tightly in plastic as a precaution.

~Ray B.
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