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Old 09-06-2006, 06:43 PM
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Originally Posted by kx250rider
I have run into humidity problems BIGTIME while working on TVs along the coast here in CA. That ocean humidity not only is wet, it's corrosive. It leaves a sticky white film on everything. The best solution, which I have done many times for customers, is to put a computer fan blowing across a small light bulb inside the cabinet 24 hrs/day. It works! The Mitsubishi big screens get very unhappy in the ocean breeze, and the arcing almost always gouges a channel in the glass from the anode holes to the nearest ground, ruining the CRTs
How close o the ocean are you? Or to rephrase the question, how far from the ocean do you have to be in Southern California before this isn't a problem?

David
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