Effect of temperature cycles on electronics ? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

16 Feb 2002

On February 16, Tom Uban wrote:
...
  What experience have people had with computer
equipment being stored
 in a unheated environment for 10-20 years, where the temperature runs
 from -10 to 100 degrees at the extremes of the seasons? Does this
 tend to kill ICs, caps, etc? 
  I've had some problems with uneven thermal expansion and contraction
cracking old PCB traces and solder joints.  Not too badly, though.

     -Dave

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Dave McGuire
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