{"id":1366,"date":"2011-01-07T09:13:18","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T14:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=1366"},"modified":"2011-01-07T09:13:18","modified_gmt":"2011-01-07T14:13:18","slug":"outdoor-laptop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2011\/01\/outdoor-laptop\/","title":{"rendered":"outdoor laptop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There seems to be a fine line of what exactly you can do with a laptop in the outdoors in the winter.<br \/>\nThe replacement allsky computer was outside the first night  and ran into some &#8220;operating system errors&#8221; that I attributed to -10 deg C temps and the hard drive not working so well.<\/p>\n<p>The next night it was brought in to warm up, then placed inside  a bag wrapped in a blanket along with its power brick and put outside.  It too stopped working during the night and crashed\/locked up.  Looking at it the next day it  was on the hot side and perhaps too well insulated.<\/p>\n<p>Today it is inside the house going through some hard drive tests and repairs.  When it does go back outside tonight, it will be inside a larger plywood box with some more air space inside, which will hopefully moderate the temperature better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There seems to be a fine line of what exactly you can do with a laptop in the outdoors in the winter. The replacement allsky computer was outside the first night and ran into some &#8220;operating system errors&#8221; that I attributed to -10 deg C temps and the hard drive not working so well. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}