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keeping a 3650 comfortable?



    Date: Fri, 21 Dec 1990 22:42 PST
    From: tk@research.att.com

    can anyone offer guidelines on acceptable environmental
    operating conditions for a 3650? i.e. temperature/humidity range. 
    thanks.
    tom

The worst case operating conditions are based on what the disk drive and
tape drives can handle.  We use the following table for 3640 and 3650
Lisp Machines:

  ______________________________________________________________________________
 |             |                                |               |               |
 | Environment |      Storage or Transport      | On site       | Operating     |
 |             |        in packaged form        | Non-operating | Environment   |
 |_____________|________________________________|_______________|_______________|
 |             |                |               |               |               |
 | Temperature | Within 24      | More than 24  |               |               |
 |             |  Hours         |  Hours        |               |               |
 |             |________________|_______________| 23 F ~ 140 F  | 50 F ~ 104 F  |
 |             |                |               | (-5 C ~ 60 C) | (10 C ~ 40 C) |
 |             | -40 F ~ 140 F  | 23 F ~ 140 F  | Max change:   | Max change:   |
 |             | (-40 C ~ 60 C) | (-5 C ~ 50 C) | 18 F / hour   | 18 F / hour   |
 |             | Max change:    | Max change:   | (10 C / hour) | (10 C / hour) |
 |             | 36 F / hour    | 18 F / hour   |               |               |
 |             | (20 C / hour)  | (10 C / hour) |               |               |
 |_____________|________________|_______________|_______________|_______________|
 |             |                                |                               |
 | Humidity    | 5% ~ 95% RH                    | 20% ~ 80% RH                  |
 |             |   Non-condensing               |   Non-condensing              |
 |_____________|________________________________|_______________________________|
 |             |                                |               |               |
 | Vibration   | 3Gs (When locked for shipment) | 0.2Gs         | 0.2Gs         |
 |             |                                | 10Hz ~ 500Hz  | 5Hz ~ 50Hz    |
 |             |                                |               | 1G            |
 |             |                                |               | 50Hz ~ 500Hz  |
 |_____________|________________________________|_______________|_______________|
 |             |                                |               |               |
 | Shock       | 5Gs Max 10mS                   | 3Gs Max 10mS  | 2Gs Max 10mS  |
 |_____________|________________________________|_______________|_______________|
 |             |                                |                               |
 | Altitude    | 40,000 Ft  (12,000 m)          | 10,000 Ft  (3,000 m)          |
 |_____________|________________________________|_______________________________|