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ChadTower:


--- Quote from: TOK on January 28, 2005, 12:39:57 pm ---Right. And they are going from cold to warm daily (underhood stuff from below freezing to over 100 degrees when the car is warm every time).  The cabinet is going to do it once. I've kept radio controlled aircraft gear in a cold garage for years. It gets used every spring, and it's always fine. Just my opinion based on my experience.
If you don't bring it from freezing to warm and immediately power it, you're not going to have a problem.



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Those controlled gears aren't nearly as large or as complex, nor are they vacuum sealed glass.

Lilwolf:

btw, I had a monitor outside for 2 years and it did no harm.  It wasn't as cold as that, but it was super cold for 2 weeks, then thaw...  It might have been worse.

Keep it inside if at all possible. 

Bring all the electronics you can inside... (ie, keyboard encoder, original cpu... ect). 

And if you DO keep it inside... warm it up slowly... IE 5+ hours...



TOK:

Not servos, a 7 channel programmable radio with a liquid crystal display.
Lilwolfs post also reminded me I have a 13" TV out there. It's been there Winter and Summer for 3 years. I suppose back and forth is getting us nowhere.
I say leaving it in the cold isn't going to hurt it unless you power it before it comes to room temperature.

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