Would I be right in thinking that a TV should be ok in a dry unheated garage ?
It was working yesterday.
Was first cold snap of -2 over night and today. No Bueno.
Before I replace it with another gumbook special.....was this just natural expiry or will the cold banjo anything I replace it with......was an lg brand hdTV.....quick look round marketplace and gumtree reveals that most of the TV's up spares of repairs are lg...suggests to me they are just guff.
Garage is being insulated this weekend so I can look to fit a greenhouse heater to keep the chill off through winter at least
Bah. Workout foiled
what about an oil heater, I'm sure there is a thread somewhere...
I have a super cheap non HD LCD TV in the shed. It works fine and has done for many years. I'd guess newer kit might be more sensitive.
Was thinking about setting fire to the whole garage bruneep.whens good for you to attend ?
Ach anytime before March is good, I shall seek advice from the experts here 1st before commencing firefighting operations just in case I'm doing it wrong.
We have a LCD in the garage, and it works just fine. In South Korea last year, my OLED viewfinder worked, and it was minus 32, I didn't though.
Hmmm just hung an old 37 inch TV in my man pub, it does have very low background heating though. Hope to god it's right for Saturday morning as there are people coming round!!!!
Out of curiosity I googled to see if LCD displays can be damaged by low temperatures. Seems that they can, but it needs to be proper cold, like -20˚C.
I guess the other potential issue would be some sort of internal condensation once you warm the garage up from freezing temperatures, which I guess could cause problems with electrics. Cameras can suffer if you take them inside into a warm, humid atmosphere from a cold outside environment with internal condensation, I guess something similar could happen if the air temperature in a garage rises far more quickly than the temperature of the TV parts, but who knows.
Well they put LCD screens in nearly every car these days, and people leave them out in the cold all the time, so I think I'd be looking at damp and condensation rather than temperature.
Old TV's used to suffer - our CRT used to crackle for a while when first turned on in the 'conservatory' when I was a teen at my parents - that was damp though.
Currently got 3 monitors in the garage in use (two for Zwift and music) and one on the CCTV. Not had any issues. use a tube heater to drive out some dampness (it's bone dry but normal air damp).
Current small LCD in our conservatory has been fine, but it's nothing fancy.
No problems so far, Sony Bravia got through last 12 months or so without issues.
Our garage is a stand alone single skin build, very damp but improved slightly with a couple of 4” ventilation holes
We have dozens of screens in our unheated warehouse and in winter they can spend days in the back of unheated trucks crossing Europe. They then go straight into warm venues and and are switched on and they just go on working. So far only dropping them and French electricians putting 415 volts through them have ever caused them not to work. The only thing that ever used to be an issue were anything that used tape, that had to be left to warm up before you'd risk running anything in it.
Maybe it's full of spiders?
