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mrserv0n:

Hey All, I live in Michigan, and we have some cold winters as you know, I am moving next week and wondered if it is safe to put my Die hard arcade cabinet in my garage for a month till things get settled, or if temperatures get below freezing, as they will, will this damage my arcade cabinets monitor? Or the IPAC in it?

 

LeedsFan:

I'm in the UK and when I did my cabinet project I had to do it out back in the garage over winter time. If you are just storing the cabinet then you should be fine. Just make sure that when you bring it back inside leave it standing for a while before switching it on.

I had to warm up the back of the cabinet where the tube was for a few minutes with a hair dryer each time I went to work on it. If I got any dampness in the tube it arced like crazy when I switched it on. That can kill a monitor very quickly. Once I warmed up the air in the back it was fine though.

mrserv0n:

thanks for the tip, I figured it would be ok, but I had the same concern about moisture overtime. Thanks again

ChadTower:


--- Quote from: LeedsFan on January 09, 2008, 01:47:06 am ---I had to warm up the back of the cabinet where the tube was for a few minutes with a hair dryer each time I went to work on it. If I got any dampness in the tube it arced like crazy when I switched it on. That can kill a monitor very quickly. Once I warmed up the air in the back it was fine though.

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Oh holy crap... rapid temperature change will kill the monitor just as fast as dampness.  You know why it was arcing when damp?  Because of the rapid expansion of the glass when you heated it up... causing cracking in the seals around the anode due to different rates of thermal expansion.  You were actually killing the monitor yourself.

shardian:

Storing is fine, but operation in that kind of cold is a no-no. That goes for computers, dvd player, gameboys, etc.

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