I got a tv as a gift from work for 10 years with the company. It is an off brand, nothing fancy. I was going to put it in the barn shop, but it gets really cold in there, just as cold as outside. So like below zero sometimes. Will that hurt the tv?
I got a tv as a gift from work for 10 years with the company. It is an off brand, nothing fancy. I was going to put it in the barn shop, but it gets really cold in there, just as cold as outside. So like below zero sometimes. Will that hurt the tv?
I never had any issues when I had one mounted in my detached garage.
I picked a TV up off the side of the road a while back, and it seems to be fine. I don't use it in freezing temps, but the freezing temps don't seem to have hurt it thus far.
YMMV.
We have TVs and ATM screens that work outside at -40 in Fairbanks. It's probably ok.
I have a decade old Vizio in the detached garage humming along. You should be golden.
If you have problems with flat screens in the cold get a tube TV. They don't give a crap. This goes for hot weather too.
I have often wondered what what temp an LCD will freeze.
93gsxturbo said:I have a decade old Vizio in the detached garage humming along. You should be golden.
Mine is 15 years old, and it's been in the barn for about the last 5. It's currently 3 degrees. It's been fine so far, but if I go out there tomorrow and the cold has killed it, it owes me nothing.
mad_machine said:I have often wondered what what temp an LCD will freeze.
About 18 degrees from what I'm told. Fortunately the liquid doesn't expand like water when it freezes so it probably won't get damaged, it just won't work until the backlight heats it up enough to flow/dissolve
When I moved my kid out west in early January we had to leave the lcd tv in the back of the truck. The coldest it got was about a 24 hour stretch at -35c. I was sure it was going to be wrecked. But after leaving it inside unplugged for a day to warm up it was fine.
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