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Humidity issue
What is the max Humidity (percent) allowed in the workplace where store
notebooks? I have a high indoor humidity level in house, show almost 90 % and it stay almost constantly and come from outdoor, old house, 1st floor.. Sure, humidity in a house cause a lot of problems. How this can affect on hardware - notebooks, in particular? I am worried about expensive notebook, and other PC hardwares.. thanks |
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Somewhere on teh intarwebs argent wrote:
What is the max Humidity (percent) allowed in the workplace where store notebooks? I have a high indoor humidity level in house, show almost 90 % and it stay almost constantly and come from outdoor, old house, 1st floor.. Sure, humidity in a house cause a lot of problems. How this can affect on hardware - notebooks, in particular? I am worried about expensive notebook, and other PC hardwares.. thanks I have a similar situation and I fire up all laptops (I have 10+) and other hardware at least once a month and leave 'it' running for at least two hours. Honestly it's a PITA but what are you gonna do? -- Shaun. "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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On 7/20/2011 4:53 PM, ~misfit~ wrote:
Somewhere on teh intarwebs argent wrote: What is the max Humidity (percent) allowed in the workplace where store notebooks? I have a high indoor humidity level in house, show almost 90 % and it stay almost constantly and come from outdoor, old house, 1st floor.. Sure, humidity in a house cause a lot of problems. How this can affect on hardware - notebooks, in particular? I am worried about expensive notebook, and other PC hardwares.. thanks I have a similar situation and I fire up all laptops (I have 10+) and other hardware at least once a month and leave 'it' running for at least two hours. Honestly it's a PITA but what are you gonna do? That's about it. Almost all electronic devices are designed to function in high humidity, but it's the users/maintainers responsibility to deal with the mold/fungi/corrosion issues. -- "**** this is it, all the pieces do fit. We're like that crazy old man jumping out of the alleyway with a baseball bat, saying, "Remember me mother****er?" Jim “Dandy” Mangrum |
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argent wrote:
What is the max Humidity (percent) allowed in the workplace where store notebooks? I have a high indoor humidity level in house, show almost 90 % and it stay almost constantly and come from outdoor, old house, 1st floor.. Sure, humidity in a house cause a lot of problems. How this can affect on hardware - notebooks, in particular? I am worried about expensive notebook, and other PC hardwares.. thanks Try a hard drive specification and see what you think. Search for "Table 15", to see a graph with operating and non-operating curves. This scared me, the first time I saw it. It's too bad the consequences (and an interpretation) are not provided, when this graph is presented. Other companies write specs like this too. They're just hard to find. This spec won't be available forever, because Hitachi's disk division has been bought out. http://www.hitachigst.com/tech/techlib.nsf/techdocs/1AED690724342C808625731600763765/$file/7k1000_sp.pdf The hard drive has a "breather hole", which equalizes internal and external air pressure. So the drive is constantly "inhaling" and "exhaling" through the breather hole (as atmospheric pressure changes). The breather hole has a fine filter on it, but I would expect sooner or later, an external humidity problem, will become an internal humidity problem. Most of the rest of a computer, I'd be less worried about. Unless there was some crappy metallurgy somewhere, it should be OK. (If the humidity is high enough, dissimilar metals may form electrochemical cells and corrosion could appear.) 60% humidity, causes carpets to mildew, so at 90%, I'd have to guess you have no carpeting at all. Paul |
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