Reply 45860 of 52352, by TheAbandonwareGuy
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TrashPanda wrote on 2022-08-07, 02:38:Meatball wrote on 2022-08-07, 02:35:TrashPanda wrote on 2022-08-07, 02:28:Here its nothing but flat open scrub land leading into a vegetated desert (Aussie deserts are weird till you get to the center of OZ).
Im glad I dont have to deal with humidity, spent a few weeks up in the tropics of Australia and the humidity nearly killed me, Ill take dry heat any day of the year. (Dry heat is also great for storing retro parts)
I don't like the humidity, either, but when we went vacationing in Nevada and Arizona, we couldn't stand the dry heat; it was very hard to breath. Thank God for A/C is all I have to say.
Hard to breathe, hmmm I guess if your lungs had adapted to living in moist environment better suited to a fish I could understand that 🤣.
Humidity is hard on retro components though, but as long as they are stored with silica gel packets or in a controlled environment I can see them holding up well for a while.
This causes me constant concern, most of my machines are stored outside in a garage that is used and isn't climate controlled, I'm sure the humidity nears 100 percent in there some days. The floor gets moist on the worst days, but I try to keep my components up higher. I haven't seen anything fail yet, but I keep meaning to go pull all the graphics cards and move them in doors, since those seem to be the main thing going up in price.
I don't really have any better options, unfortunately. I don't own the place and this is the space I'm alotted.
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