Weatherproofing a laptop

[gary]

A coworker had a program running on his laptop that needed a few more 
hours to run. So he locked up his notebook in his desk and left for the 
day. The next day, the case was melted. Fortunately, it didn't cause a fire.

My gut feeling is a PC that is going to sit outdoors should be one of 
those PC "boxes" that you see in the adverts in Circuit Cellar, i.e. no 
display or hard drive. Many are set up to run linux.


Harmon Seaver wrote:
> On 7/3/06, Tyler <tyler at azulstar.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>> Probably the best bet is to put it into a completely sealed box and 
>> then put
>> a sun shade over it.
> 
> 
>    I wouldn't put it in a completely sealed box, that would cook it.
> Put it in a little shelter like they use for weather instruments. They
> have a roof with a large enough overhang all around to shade it and
> then the walls are vented -- white-painted wood slats at an angle so
> rain can't get in but air flows  freely. Cheap and easy to build or
> you can buy them. Like these:
> 
> http://www.rickly.com/MI/InstrumentShelter.htm
> 
>   But I would put more overhang on the roof.
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