[Freedombox-discuss] Environmental range of the dream plug

[Matthew Platte]

On 04/10/2012 11:51 PM, Dave Taht wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 8:59 PM, Sandy Harris<sandyinchina at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 9:09 PM, Jack Wilborn<jkwilborn at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> I have received a note from the US distributors of the Dream Plug 2 about
>>> it's range of operation.  They advised that the unit's operational area is 0
>>> - 40 Degrees Centigrade.  Which means it is about useless here for about 4
>>> months of the year.  ..
...
>> For indoor operation, 0-40 C is more than enough temperature range, though
>> you might need to worry about dust, humidity and in some areas power line
>> oddities.
>
> Depends on the indoors.
>
> In parts of the world lacking air conditioning, indoors can easily
> exceed 40c. Quite a lot of the world lacked air conditioning, last I
> looked.

Last summer my home in Kansas didn't exceed 40c but it got pretty dang 
close. The one electric fan that was on all the time was aimed at the 
suspended-in-air DSL modem/router which behaved badly when hot.

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