29 Aug 2006 at 11:21 #1 Kabaala Kabaala Permabanned Joined 10 Mar 2006 Posts 393 Location Haggis country. Bit of a weird one but how safe would you say it would be to run the components from outside the case for any length of time? I dont mean the normal minute or so to test before building, i'm talking about hours.
Bit of a weird one but how safe would you say it would be to run the components from outside the case for any length of time? I dont mean the normal minute or so to test before building, i'm talking about hours.
29 Aug 2006 at 11:26 #2 _-J-_ _-J-_ Associate Joined 12 Jun 2005 Posts 836 Location Newcastle Depends what you are running it on. We run test rigs at work, which are simply a motherboard, PSU etc attached to a wood frame, they are fine.
Depends what you are running it on. We run test rigs at work, which are simply a motherboard, PSU etc attached to a wood frame, they are fine.
29 Aug 2006 at 11:26 #3 ins0mn1ac ins0mn1ac Soldato Joined 1 Aug 2006 Posts 5,724 Location Cardiff guessing it would be safe aslong as it was mounted properly, but im pretty sure temps would be crazy
29 Aug 2006 at 11:28 #4 Kabaala Kabaala Permabanned OP Joined 10 Mar 2006 Posts 393 Location Haggis country. Would be on a wooden table on top of the anti static bag which in turn is on a piece of cardboard.
29 Aug 2006 at 11:30 #5 Kabaala Kabaala Permabanned OP Joined 10 Mar 2006 Posts 393 Location Haggis country. I don't imagine temps would be too much of a problem no heating on at this time of year and its pretty cool today and the window is also open.
I don't imagine temps would be too much of a problem no heating on at this time of year and its pretty cool today and the window is also open.
29 Aug 2006 at 11:35 #6 daven1986 daven1986 Soldato Joined 29 Oct 2005 Posts 3,298 just make sure it is on a non-conductive non-static surface and it'll be fine. daven
29 Aug 2006 at 12:02 #7 Hamoodii Hamoodii Soldato Joined 30 Jun 2006 Posts 2,631 Location London/Southampton Read here This should give you an idea
29 Aug 2006 at 12:57 #8 dun dun Soldato Joined 5 Nov 2004 Posts 4,635 Location West Midlands It'll be fine, if you think about it what is a case doing apart from holding all the bits up in weird positions
It'll be fine, if you think about it what is a case doing apart from holding all the bits up in weird positions
