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How do you keep the electronics inside from overheating?

I get the reasoning behind a humidifier. For some people, the low humidity becomes a health issue and they need the added moisture in the air. Also, air too dry or too damp can usher in some viruses. If you can maintain a 45 - 60% relative humidity level, you can avoid some airborne viruses as well as ESD damage to sensitive electronics.

The problem is that, with the exception of the southwest, most places within the US during the summer months are not only brutally hot, they are hovering anywhere from 55 - 85% relative humidity which makes the environment that much more oppressive. For instance today, the forcast where I live is 100 F with a heat index of 110 F and 56% RH and that humidity level is low for here and very low for some other places this time of year.

I've been to the very same store seen in the photo above, but I'm with the first commenter. I'm really surprised they don't have more locations. If the drive isn't bad, it's the amount of traffic you have to ford through in order to get there, especially on Metcalf where this store is located. Every time I see a new construction site break ground near me, I hope and wish for a new Microcenter so I dont have to travel 50 miles round trip, but alas.

You'll excuse my lack of appreciation. I have a rather nice HP laptop meet an early demise thanks to my cat and nearly loss a brand new Dell to another. Luckily the Dell was still under warranty.

Pantyhose....a good way to kill a mainframe, or other minimally insulated systems, in very short order.

If this saves me from having to boot into Windows and manually editing tags with Mp3tag, I may consider giving this program a go. However, I do wish the pricing was more in line with their free alternative competitors. Not saying it should be free, but $30 for a lifetime license seems to be a bit high for what you're getting.

Very nice. I never thought about dovetails to form the leg supports on either of the two desks I've built. Great idea! Love the butcher block top too. That's totally sweet.

The facilities department in the building I work installed these things all over in an attempt to be "green". They even put them on the vending machines. The only thing they managed to accomplish is the more frequent replacement of bulbs and malfunctioning vending machines.

The bulbs would burn out prematurely from the constant on and off states. Often times, if you didn't move enough or were out of the line of sight from the sensors, the lights would turn out while you were in the room. This proved to be problematic when mechanics were working on live machinery or high voltage gear. Nothing like reaching in with a tool and the lights go out on you.

Despite the protesting from a multitude of people, our facilities department proceeded as if nothing was wrong despite the fact that we had a trash compactor full of mercury filled bulbs and what ever they saved in electricity they more than negated in new bulb costs and the $75 for each sensor switch they installed.

The vending machines also had issues too. They would remain in a low power state when no one was near them. The refrigeration would remain on, but the bill and coin mechanisms would remain powered off along with the front lights of the machine. The problems became apparent when someone would walk into the room and it was like hitting the jackpot in Vegas. All the machines would empty all their change like a slot machine and then refuse to accept anything but exact change afterwords.

So I'd have to say emphatically, NO, they do not save energy nor money. It's a farce.

I just did a major remodel and the first thing I plugged in was a lamp, followed by my mac.