How and where to best store temperature sensitive stuff (electronics) on the bike/rig on a long tour thru hot climates (even a.m.)? There must be some better possibilities in the rig? The max temperature for most electronics seems to be 45 degrees C/113 F. I was thinking of a cooler with ice for food/drinkies/medication - that won't work for electronics I bet (humidity, gross temp changes). Thanks for replies.
I'm no expert but I'd go for a place that had air flow without being exposed to the sun. The space under the cowl of the sidecar comes to mind immediately. Good Luck!
I can tell you where not to put them on a Escort, experience is the best teacher. LOL
I had a set of plastic speaker enclosures that I'd tried to mount on the dash of my Escort with double sided tape, one sunny South Carolina summer day was enough to tell me that they would not do well there. They looked like a plastic cup thrown into a campfire just before they burst into flames! It had to hit maybe 150 degrees or better to do that much damage when the tonneau cover was on. I hadn't put the graphic on the windshield yet, but was pretty unwilling to put a high dollar amateur radio inside the car with those kinds a temps. You might put an oven thermometer inside the sidecar in the areas you are considering, and leave it sit for a couple of hours mid-day, and see where the temperatures stay the lowest. I've been considering putting a "muffin" fan under my ham transceiver and mount it in the trunk behind the seat area. Just one thought.
Doc
Don't do it!
Dave
I am not an expert, in fact I have never even thought about high temps hurting electronics, just water. That said I carry my lap top, along with a small inverter and chargers, for the lap top and cell phone, in a padded carry case in the trunk of my goldwing. I am in south Texas, all summer last year it stayed at or near 100 every day. We were on the road for all of the month of July, over 5000 miles, and found no problems with the electonics, but the heat nearly did us in. Good luck with it, I think I would try to keep it out of direct sun light, and try not to worry about it too much.
two freshe spaces I had. found were: Beneath the s/c seat upholstery. but the radio recorder did not survive when a friend sunk my rig crossing a river...
and under the rider seat close to the air filter inlet. (Where I store my first aid kit)
But who knows if that works out in all areas and climates. In a tropoic rainstorm there is not any place of the bike safe for water and in the desert???
a Freezerbox with some beer and the electronics wraped in a ziplock bag might work perhaps.
Sven
