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<blockquote data-quote="Ryan Lantzy" data-source="post: 48671" data-attributes="member: 7"><p>Re: Water damage... causes</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>This might not be a problem if the dehumidifier was triggered by a thermostat to only turn on when the air inside rose above the point where condensation on the gear would pose a serious threat. The problem for me is that there is no easy way to get power to where the truck usually sits.</p><p></p><p>We opened one of the other cabinets and found some corrosion on the back of the magnet for the MF driver. We haven't looked at the rest yet, but will be doing that soon. Depending on what we find will determine possible causes IMO.</p><p></p><p>For instance if all of the HF drivers are corroded in the same way I would lean on that being related to condensation. It would be damn near impossible for any damaging amount of water to get into all of them from rain (IMO). However, I know of at least one gig where they got much wetter than we would have liked and this could still be the source of the damage.</p><p></p><p>I guess my supposition is this: If the damage is fairly uniform across all boxes I lean toward condensation as the source. If the one or two of the boxes are far worse than the other two, or one or two of the boxes show no signs of damage at all, I would lean toward a rain event (and time spent with wet components) causing the damage. It would not be very logical for 1 or 2 boxes to be clean as a whistle and the remainder to be totally corroded if condensation were to blame, they sit in the exact same spot in the box and over the years their position L-R in the box would have been fairly randomized. This is all conjecture until we open them, and even then it still may be.</p><p></p><p>What still doesn't jive with me is that no other equipment in this truck has ever seen anywhere near this kind of corrosion so water damage from rain is highly suspect in my mind.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ryan Lantzy, post: 48671, member: 7"] Re: Water damage... causes This might not be a problem if the dehumidifier was triggered by a thermostat to only turn on when the air inside rose above the point where condensation on the gear would pose a serious threat. The problem for me is that there is no easy way to get power to where the truck usually sits. We opened one of the other cabinets and found some corrosion on the back of the magnet for the MF driver. We haven't looked at the rest yet, but will be doing that soon. Depending on what we find will determine possible causes IMO. For instance if all of the HF drivers are corroded in the same way I would lean on that being related to condensation. It would be damn near impossible for any damaging amount of water to get into all of them from rain (IMO). However, I know of at least one gig where they got much wetter than we would have liked and this could still be the source of the damage. I guess my supposition is this: If the damage is fairly uniform across all boxes I lean toward condensation as the source. If the one or two of the boxes are far worse than the other two, or one or two of the boxes show no signs of damage at all, I would lean toward a rain event (and time spent with wet components) causing the damage. It would not be very logical for 1 or 2 boxes to be clean as a whistle and the remainder to be totally corroded if condensation were to blame, they sit in the exact same spot in the box and over the years their position L-R in the box would have been fairly randomized. This is all conjecture until we open them, and even then it still may be. What still doesn't jive with me is that no other equipment in this truck has ever seen anywhere near this kind of corrosion so water damage from rain is highly suspect in my mind. [/QUOTE]
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