We don't heat our whole house...just the living room and kitchen when it's really cold and a little electric heater in the room with the incoming water pipes and washer.
I have a spare computer in the back room that will get below freezing when the temperature drops into the teens towards the end of the week...maybe as low as 5 degrees F one of those mornings so I expect that room to be well below freezing.
I don't plan to move it or even use it during that time...just wondering if cold will hurt anything?
It's shut down and unplugged.
"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
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"It's all one song!" -Neil Young
I had a laptop that got into the 20s many times in my service truck. It would make me wait while it warmed up in the mornings but worked many many years.
I think freezing with moisture would be a problem. Moisture without freezing would be a problem.
Freezing is not bad for common electronics, if you take them from freezing to high temps to fast it can make condensation/moisture which is bad for them.
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Thank you both for such quick responses!
...and just the answers I was hoping to hear.
It's an old pc so no great loss if it doesn't make it but was hoping it would be OK.
Now I can go back to worrying about covering my outdoor plants and things
We don't usually get prolonged cold snaps like this one coming up.
"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young
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