Robert, Yes, the consensus (offline) had seemed to be that humidy, thermal insulation, etc are not issues; and the only issue would be flammability. And yeah, I actually watched a capacitor explode under ideal circumstances (it was shadowed dark behind the box where I was looking, wondering why the prototype game box was behaving badly); it shot a beautiful little jet of flame.
Incidentally, Sebastian Hyde has pictures of a really beautiful black walnut PC. I think the right word is "baroque". Really beautiful. But yeah consideration would have to made for the fire issue. Peter On 10/23/08, Robert G. Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, Peter St. John wrote: > > On the subject of Doug's "A Case for Cases" >> http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7164, I had noticed that the Helmer thing >> ("bewwulf in an Ikea cabinet") is not >> really in a wood cabinet (the steel box can be put inside a cabinet). I'm >> assuming it's unreasonable to actually make a wood cabinet? On account of >> humidy, or just weight? To me it just sounds easy to build a wooden rack >> for >> a bunch of ATX motherboards. And it could look nice. Thermal and >> electrical >> insulation would be OK, and humidy controlled with a good paint job on the >> interior...? >> > > What about fire? Anything electrical can in a worst case pop hot/molten > metal before frying and/or blowing a breaker. Capacitors blow up > (literally). A wire is badly soldered and pulls free and grounds out, > spattering white hot metal. > > Inside a metal shell, odds are you won't get a REAL fire as there isn't > much actively flammable around. In a wooden box, carefully dried by six > months of 50C heat... it wouldn't take a lot to get real flames, > especially if the box had e.g. a cooling fan mounted to actively fan a > hot coal into flames. > > rgb > > >> Peter >> >> > -- > Robert G. Brown Phone(cell): 1-919-280-8443 > Duke University Physics Dept, Box 90305 > Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 > Web: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb <http://www.phy.duke.edu/%7Ergb> > Book of Lilith Website: > http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/Lilith/Lilith.php<http://www.phy.duke.edu/%7Ergb/Lilith/Lilith.php> > Lulu Bookstore: http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcctID=877977 >
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