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From: bdale@col.hp.com (Bdale Garbee)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco
Subject: Re: Mounting cabinets for AGS+
Message-ID: <21940002@col.hp.com>
Date: 16 Oct 90 18:36:20 GMT
References: <27747@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Organization: HP Colorado Springs Division
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>We've had some AGS and MGS boxes in some pretty dirty environments (they
>were installed while our new facility was still under construction), and
>even though the boards to indeed get very dirty, we haven't had any
>failures as a result.  Perhaps we're just lucky, but I do think this
>indicates that the lack of a filter is not a major problem.

Be careful about this, though... here in the high country where single-digit
humidity is the order of the day in winter, we all of a sudden had a humid
day last year and bloody near everything of import crashed... all the gunk
that had harmlessly built on on the boards of a lot of our systems became
conductive when wet...

/o\

Bdale
HP COL Technical Computing Environment Manager