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Re: MAE NY?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Lesher)
Wed Oct 7 00:48:39 1998

From: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>
To: michael@memra.com (Michael Dillon)
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 00:34:08 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.93.981006210045.29615C-100000@sidhe.memra.com> from "Michael Dillon" at Oct 6, 98 09:07:07 pm

Unnamed Administration sources reported that Michael Dillon said:
> My experience is that electronic/computer type equipment runs best when it
> is in a cool environment, i.e. too cold for a human in T-shirt to work in
> for very long. And when the ambient temperature gets above room temp, then

True. And recall that 15C in will be a lot more coming out.
But colder always costs more money. 

> you get too many wierd and unexplainable problems occurring or just plain
> equipment failure. Sean Donelan is right to worry about condensation and I

I'm less sure. IMHE, anything running will not promote condensation.
It will be warmer than ambient.

You DO need to be concerned over too LOW a RH -- for the obvious
reason.... static hazard.


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