[OT] Computers and cold temperatures & lm-sensors

[Pongo A. Pan]

On Mon, 2011-11-14 at 15:25 +0000, Liam Proven wrote:
> On 14 November 2011 14:57, compdoc <compdoc at hotrodpc.com> wrote:
> >> Would it not be as effective, cheaper on power and more pleasant to have a
> > fishtank and/or a load of houseplants?
> >
> > I have a fish tank, and house plants. The problem is, the home's natural gas
> > heating unit dries out the already dry air here in Denver.
> >
> > The fish tank is 30 gallons, and only evaporates about 1 gallon of water a
> > week...
> >
> > It's a problem that happens every winter.
> 
> Ahhh. The mile-high state, huh? It's the only US state I've visited
> outside New York and New England.
> 
> That sounds like some serious dryness! O_o

Well, the same is true in the interior of every large continent.  I
lived most of my life either on or very near tropical seas and grew very
careless in handling electronics because it was always humid.  When I
retired, married a desert girl, and moved to quite dry (17cm rainfall -
mostly as snow - annually) northern Nevada, I had to learn the hard way
to ground myself before touching anything.  My much more used to dryness
DW has a special little room for working on electronics: a wood table
and wood stools on a wood floor, house plants in the window and
elaborate grounding apparatus. Earthing is regularly checked with a
"megger." You must be be barefoot!   I must be supervised.  

We have an old computer in an unheated cabin running cams to record the
bears breaking in during the summer and the XC skiers in winter.  It has
worked fine in temperatures ranging from the high 30s to -20s Celcius.


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