I am about to close up my cabin for the winter. The heat will be off, and the indoor temperature will drop well below freezing. Will my LCD TV be damaged by these temperatures? In other words, will the "liquid crystal" freeze and break something? I would be grateful for a link or pointer to an authoritative source.
Thanks
Bill
Wow - I never thought of that. My place does not go below freezing as long as the minimal heat is on. I hope someone really knows. Have you tried contacting the manufacturer?
Bob Hofmann
.... NO, NO, NO, NO.... NO DAMAGE the LCD "response time" will get sluggish but will come back to normal when it gets up to tempereature. I have shipped a lot of equipment back and forth to Alaska, North Dakota, Minnesota, etc in the dead of winter, when it comes out of the unheated delivery truck, or out of the overnight trunk in a car or van, it can be well below freezing and computer FANS groan and don't turn well, LCD monitors, LCD projectors don't display well, even handheld LCD calculators get very sluggish.... just put one of your cheap calculators in the freezer overnight.... it will have to come up to near room temperature to work properly but it will not be damaged.... now if you submersed it in liquid nitrogen or something like that I think their could possibly be a problem. electrictym ..
I accidentally froze a laptop computer once; I left it in my car overnight and we had a particularly cold snap. I realized what I'd done in the morniing and brought it inside, and noticed that the display looked very strange. This worried me, so I let it warm up until the condensation was gone and powered it up, and the display was completely black. I thought it was shot, but when I tried it again a few hours later everything was fine.
I suspect you'd have to get an lcd really really cold to freeze it, and even then it might not harm it; few substances expand when frozen like water does.
It'll be fine, just warm the room up to something reasonable for several hours before turning the thing on to make sure any moisture that condenses in it goes away.
Thanks for the inputs, everyone. I got the "official" answer from the mfr today. Storage conditions as low as -20C (-4F) are OK. Below that, no guarantee.
Bill
Seems like the best people to ask are from car audio. There are probably more displays in the cold vehicles than anywhere else.
greg
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