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We just had the furnace in our house quit working, and because a part had to be ordered, it was several days before heat could be restored.  The thermostat said the inside of the house had dropped to 36 degrees (Fahrenheit, which would be... about 2 degrees Celsius), but that was from a thermostat placed dead center of the house, which (based on the laws of thermodynamics) would have been the spot in the house least effected by outside temperatures.  We know other rooms must have been colder, because we found that the cans of soda we had in the pantry were frozen.  After restoring the heat, and letting it run for a few hours, we tried turning on our living room TV.  This TV, mounted to an outside wall, was literally frozen when we turned it on -- the screen "came on," but it only showed a... well, a slide show, at best.  We were a bit worried, at first, but after a while, it started displaying properly again.

So that makes me curious -- how cold did it actually get in the house?  Are there any reliable stats to show us how cold it has to get to affect the display of an LCD TV?  (And is that warmer or colder than what it takes to freeze a can of soda?)

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7 minutes ago, David A. Tatum said:

We just had the furnace in our house quit working, and because a part had to be ordered, it was several days before heat could be restored.  The thermostat said the inside of the house had dropped to 36 degrees (Fahrenheit, which would be... about 2 degrees Celsius), but that was from a thermostat placed dead center of the house, which (based on the laws of thermodynamics) would have been the spot in the house least effected by outside temperatures.  We know other rooms must have been colder, because we found that the cans of soda we had in the pantry were frozen.  After restoring the heat, and letting it run for a few hours, we tried turning on our living room TV.  This TV, mounted to an outside wall, was literally frozen when we turned it on -- the screen "came on," but it only showed a... well, a slide show, at best.  We were a bit worried, at first, but after a while, it started displaying properly again.

So that makes me curious -- how cold did it actually get in the house?  Are there any reliable stats to show us how cold it has to get to affect the display of an LCD TV?  (And is that warmer or colder than what it takes to freeze a can of soda?)

LCD monitos can definitely be sluggish if its affected by very low temperatures.

it will warm up eventually but as you mention it will be a bit slideshowy / sluggish 😄 

 

This was very common on old car stereos with LCD screens during winter.

As a Norwegian, I know 😄

 

 

There are probably some article out there exploring this.

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What I would suggest not doing is bringing a frozen LCD or really any electronics directly into a warm environment and powering them up. Condensation isn't good. Let it warm up to room temperature first.

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23 hours ago, GuiltySpark_ said:

What I would suggest not doing is bringing a frozen LCD or really any electronics directly into a warm environment and powering them up. Condensation isn't good. Let it warm up to room temperature first.

 

Well, thankfully, the television survived with little or no damage from condensation.  I did wait as long as possible before turning on any computers or the like.  We had even waited a few hours before turning on the TV.  It was already up into the high fifties before we turned on the TV, according to the thermostat, but clearly the wall the TV was mounted to still wasn't that high.

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