This winter was pretty cold. For about a week straight in the middle of
January and again in February, I had a few base units reporting under 0F
every night. And I know the outside air temp was -20 to -25F. Obviously
take the base unit's temp reading with a grain of salt because it's
clearly generating some internal heat. I would bet inside the enclosures
it was easily -15F. But I think your -13F is probably OK.
On 5/18/2015 9:09 PM, Forrest Christian (List Account) wrote:
What is the lowest temperature that each of you would normally expect
to see in your enclosures?
The reason I'm asking is that I'm in the process of developing up a
few new products.
To date, all of the packetflux products are designed with components
rated -40 to +85C (I.E way cold to way hot). I'd like to retain this
rating, but I'm running into a minor snag:
For storage, I'm planning on integrating a SD card (probably microSD)
in a socket. I only need a GB or so, and SD card memory is
inexpensive at that range.
Unfortunately, all the reasonably priced SD cards are only rated down
to about -25C or -13F. which are about ~$3 in qty. "Industrial
temperature range" ones which are good down to -40C/F are available
but they add at least $30 to the cost for non-name brand, and even
more for known brands. When you're talking about a $100 end-user
price, a $30 1GB SD card seems excessive - and probably isn't even
possible if I want to meet the $100 price with some margin.
So, I'm currently playing the 'what options do I have' game. I hate
to ship a product only rated down to -25C/-13F, but I know for at
least a large chunk of my customer base they never see below this
temperature, especially when you add a watt of power dissipation in
the case with the device. Which leads me back to my original
question: What's the lowest temperature most people would expect to
see inside their enclosures.
--
*Forrest Christian* /CEO//, PacketFlux Technologies, Inc./
Tel: 406-449-3345 | Address: 3577 Countryside Road, Helena, MT 59602
forre...@imach.com <mailto:forre...@imach.com> |
http://www.packetflux.com <http://www.packetflux.com/>
<http://www.linkedin.com/in/fwchristian>
<http://facebook.com/packetflux> <http://twitter.com/@packetflux>
