Re: Progress Report /dry air

[Cary Chleborad <bennu@ns.net>]

Let's raise the stakes a bit.

Why not switch the camera to a vacuum evacuated design? The best cameras
do this anyway.

Or

How about a vacuum out-gassing "purge", dry nitrogen back fill and then
seal it up?

What are the possibilities of modifying the camera cases to accept
O-Rings for sealing?  I've got the CNC machining capability to do this
if needed.

-Cary


"Albertson, Chris" wrote:
> 
> > From: Tom Droege [mailto:tdroege@veriomail.com]
> >
> > ... The dry airsystem is
> > still not quite good enough.  I ran when the relative
> > humidity was near
> > 100% and got ice crystals in the I camera.  I am trying to dry it out
> > now.
> 
> Just curious, why not run the dry air system when it is raining?
> I would think it should be run 24x7, _especially_ during periods of
> high humidity so as to keep water out of the camera.  What happens?
> does the silica gel get overloaded and stop working?