I think I would start by asking Cisco. Their typical specs show the storage conditions. Example:
PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS: ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS • Storage temperature: -38 to 150°F (-40 to 70°C) • Storage relative humidity: 5 to 95% relative humidity (RH) Darrell Root wrote: > > We had a fire in a building where we stored a significant quantity of > gear and are attempting to > determine whether any of the gear in the vicinity can be trusted (and > dealing with the insurance > adjustor). > > Stuff sprayed with water or in dense smoke (everything on the floor of > the fire) is thrown out of course. > > I've got some switches which were 1 floor downstairs from the fire. > They were in moderate smoke. > They are dry, although the building was very humid (3 inches of water > on floor). Most of them smell > smoky. > > My worst judgement call is a pair of ASA5580-40's in the original > packaging 1 floor down from the > fire. They were inside a plastic bag inside a box on a pallet. The box > is dry. > Some condensation was noticed inside the plastic bag when it was > opened up. > > From my standpoint I don't want to trust any of this gear in > production. Of course, the insurance > adjustor sees gear that appears undamaged and is now completely dry. > > Anyone have experience running gear that was subjected to smoke, and > possibly some > condensation? Did it result in abnormal outages in the future? > > Darrell Root > ciscotraining at mac.com > > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
