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Default Can cold weather damage electronics components and circuit boards?

On Mar 7, 6:29 am, JW wrote:
On 6 Mar 2007 13:11:27 -0800 "sparky" wrote in
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Low temperatures do not bother electronic components.


Not true. I've seen more than a few switch mode power supplies that would
not start at temperatures below 0 Celsius.


Quite possibly a marginal capacitor before the cold weather affected
it.
Just a problem waiting for the right conditions.