classiccmping and cold weather - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

18 Feb 2006

I had thought lcds get damaged if theyre not allowed
to warm up after getting too cold? Dont particularly
know, but would think the freezing point of that stuph
is much less then h2o.
--- cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org
<healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
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  At 9:33 PM +0100 2/18/06, lee at geekdot.com wrote:
 >  > What is the danger related to storing CC gear in extreme cold
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  >>  temperatures?
 ...
   >One thing to keep in mind is that some
liquid crystal displays will be
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  >permanently damaged by freezing. Others will stop
working, usually
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  >turning completely opaque or completely
transparent, but will recover
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  when they warm
up.  
 Interesting.  Any idea if this would effect the original Game Boy's? 
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  I don't know what it is about them, but I had two
of them that lost 
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  lines on the display after they sat unused for a
year or two.  At the 
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  same time I'm fairly certain neither would have
gotten frozen.
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 		Zane

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