putting crts in a unheated garage

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hi,

i just moved into a new house and i'm looking for a place to put a few
older CRTs that i dont use often (over the years i've been given them
and they've helped every now and then). They take up too much room in
my office so i was wondering, will i have a problem putting them on
industial shelving in my unheated\cooled garage?

thx for the help,

dan

p.s

if it makes a diffrence i live in NJ right by NYC

 

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Dan Irwin wrote:
> hi,
>
> i just moved into a new house and i'm looking for a place to put a few
> older CRTs that i dont use often (over the years i've been given them
> and they've helped every now and then). They take up too much room in
> my office so i was wondering, will i have a problem putting them on
> industial shelving in my unheated\cooled garage?
>

Just don't plug them in until they get back to room temp. You'll be OK. I
keep a few in my shed outside and it gets 40 degrees below and colder here
for weeks at a time. I blew a capacitor once when I brought a cold monitor
in and tried to fire it up... learned the lesson... and have let them warm
up before plugging them in ever since and never had another problem.

 

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"i'm_tired" <it_isnt_valid@emailaddy.edu> wrote in message
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> Dan Irwin wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> > i just moved into a new house and i'm looking for a place to put a few
> > older CRTs that i dont use often (over the years i've been given them
> > and they've helped every now and then). They take up too much room in
> > my office so i was wondering, will i have a problem putting them on
> > industial shelving in my unheated\cooled garage?
> >
>
> Just don't plug them in until they get back to room temp. You'll be OK.
I
> keep a few in my shed outside and it gets 40 degrees below and colder here
> for weeks at a time. I blew a capacitor once when I brought a cold
monitor
> in and tried to fire it up... learned the lesson... and have let them
warm
> up before plugging them in ever since and never had another problem.
>
Maybe, maybe not.
The flyback transformer is supposed to be sealed, but they frequenty fail
because of traces of moisture that infiltrate the housing. If this happens
over a long period of time, the water isn't going to come out just by
letting it warm up. You'd have to bake it. Same with a lot of the small
ceramic caps -- very sensitive to moisture infiltration.

If you have a decent CRT, like a 17" multiscan, I'd find room for it in the
bottom of a closet.
If it's not a modern unit, and the choice is to toss it or put it in the
patio, it will probably survive on the patio.

 

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"Robert Morein" <nowhere@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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>
> "i'm_tired" <it_isnt_valid@emailaddy.edu> wrote in message
> news:4Brac.38525$gA5.517284@attbi_s03...
> > Dan Irwin wrote:
> > > hi,
> > >
> > > i just moved into a new house and i'm looking for a place to put a few
> > > older CRTs that i dont use often (over the years i've been given them
> > > and they've helped every now and then). They take up too much room in
> > > my office so i was wondering, will i have a problem putting them on
> > > industial shelving in my unheated\cooled garage?
> > >
> >
> > Just don't plug them in until they get back to room temp. You'll be OK.
> I
> > keep a few in my shed outside and it gets 40 degrees below and colder
here
> > for weeks at a time. I blew a capacitor once when I brought a cold
> monitor
> > in and tried to fire it up... learned the lesson... and have let them
> warm
> > up before plugging them in ever since and never had another problem.
> >
> Maybe, maybe not.
> The flyback transformer is supposed to be sealed, but they frequenty fail
> because of traces of moisture that infiltrate the housing. If this happens
> over a long period of time, the water isn't going to come out just by
> letting it warm up. You'd have to bake it. Same with a lot of the small
> ceramic caps -- very sensitive to moisture infiltration.
>
> If you have a decent CRT, like a 17" multiscan, I'd find room for it in
the
> bottom of a closet.
> If it's not a modern unit, and the choice is to toss it or put it in the
> patio, it will probably survive on the patio.
>
>

Wrap 'em up in plastic trash bags, throw in one of
those silica gel dessicant pouches that come in
everything you buy these days.

Keeps the dust out too.

 

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>i just moved into a new house and i'm looking for a place to put a few
>older CRTs that i dont use often (over the years i've been given them
>and they've helped every now and then). They take up too much room in
>my office so i was wondering, will i have a problem putting them on
>industial shelving in my unheated\cooled garage?

Cold doesn't matter. Damp might.

 

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"Vance Green" <vancegrn@nowhere.net> wrote in message
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>
[snip]
>
> Wrap 'em up in plastic trash bags, throw in one of
> those silica gel dessicant pouches that come in
> everything you buy these days.
>
> Keeps the dust out too.
>
I have a Lecroy 9400A digital oscilloscope that was stored by it's previous
owner in an unheated garage in Vermont for a winter. I got it cheap, because
the tripler was destroyed by the cold.

 

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i'm in jersey not vermont, here we dont get all that cold for all that long

"Robert Morein" <nowhere@nowhere.com> wrote in message news:<roGdnXbRe7YFdvbdRVn2sg@giganews.com>...
> "Vance Green" <vancegrn@nowhere.net> wrote in message
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> >
> [snip]
> >
> > Wrap 'em up in plastic trash bags, throw in one of
> > those silica gel dessicant pouches that come in
> > everything you buy these days.
> >
> > Keeps the dust out too.
> >
> I have a Lecroy 9400A digital oscilloscope that was stored by it's previous
> owner in an unheated garage in Vermont for a winter. I got it cheap, because
> the tripler was destroyed by the cold.