Quote from: Bogart on November 13, 2013, 12:50:00 AM

Quote from: DeathAndTaxes on October 24, 2013, 05:39:15 PM

Cooling below dewpoint is generally not a good idea.

I know this is OT for this thread, but I wanted to ask...

I have a stack of Avalons that lives on my outdoor deck. A roof protects them from rain and such, but they are fully exposed to the outdoor temperature changes, which get down below freezing at night this time of year.

Am I likely to have dew issues?

i think you're likely to have dew problems and may have rust on your circuits. could be bad for power supplies... and chips.. and everything. theres the potential for dew to freeze... work fine... and then thaw and cause significant damage.

I should add that this has happened to me... literally, i had the early version of liquid cooling, which was vapour chill cooling (AseTek used to cool chips with chillers that operated at sub zero temps)... and my high end pc equipment was working fine and always on... and it worked flawlessly at below 0 temperatures right up until the first power cut, when the system thawed... and the water corroded and damaged the intel chips.