Subject: Re: cg6 from an ss2 to ss5, ok?
To: None <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
List: port-sparc
Date: 09/02/2002 10:25:21
> Some people seem to have gotten the idea that using air from a
> compressor is bad because of the possibility of getting the system
> damp from natural water buildup in the compressor tank.

Well, I'd fear that because (a) if the water is more than very fine
droplets, it will likely be moving at high speed, high enough to crack
delicate things if it hits wrong, and (b) the water will probably be
carrying contaminants, quite possibly contaminants sufficiently
conductive to disturb the electronics.  Most of the inputs on a modern
computer are very high-impedance, and while the drivers are usually
low-impedance, I don't trust them to be all that robust.

Of course, if you avoid bulk water, and wash it all off with _clean_
water afterwards....

> Fear me, for I am a programmer with a soldering iron. :D

:-)  Well, so am I, so....

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