ItsMeBobO Posted January 4, 2010 Share Posted January 4, 2010 Made boxes to weather protect the power and controller. Condensation in bottom was deep enough that power supply was sitting in water on one end. Everything worked entire season but looks like it was a close call. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bryandolan Posted January 4, 2010 Share Posted January 4, 2010 Wow, I used the same box...no leaks on mine. Did you see if it was a leak or condensation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ItsMeBobO Posted January 4, 2010 Author Share Posted January 4, 2010 Can't tell. Could be both. We had a long 20 degree cold spell and several very rainy evenings but I never stopped the show and never blew a GFCI.Also got water/ice in some strobes which IS condensation from sucking in cool air after pressurized hot air forces its way out of sealed strobe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponddude Posted January 4, 2010 Share Posted January 4, 2010 My strobes had a lot of water...mainly ice...in them as well.The beauty of it being so cold this year is when water does get into enclosures, it just freezes and we don't have to worry so much about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Noe Posted January 5, 2010 Share Posted January 5, 2010 Teardown....What a neat idea! Unfortunately most of my stuff is buried under snow and frozen to the ground, so looks like March or April for me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Simmons Posted January 5, 2010 Share Posted January 5, 2010 Yeah, me too. I don't even start thinking of any serious amount of tear down until it consistently gets above freezing during the day.I also had ice form in my Xenon strobes, even with weep holes drilled. Oddly enough though, I had three crap out and those three didn't have any moisture issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Noe Posted January 5, 2010 Share Posted January 5, 2010 George Simmons wrote: Yeah, me too. I don't even start thinking of any serious amount of tear down until it consistently gets above freezing during the day.I also had ice form in my Xenon strobes, even with weep holes drilled. Oddly enough though, I had three crap out and those three didn't have any moisture issues.I've only ever lost one strobe over 3 seasons of using them. No weep holes here. Lucky I guess? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank A. Posted January 6, 2010 Share Posted January 6, 2010 Good morningBobI would change those clamp style fittings to grommet styleFrank A. Attached files Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Frank A. Posted January 6, 2010 Share Posted January 6, 2010 Good morningthis is not where I bought minebut there was a link on this site from this companyhttp://www.sparcotech.com/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?preadd=action&key=RJ45-ECSattached picFrank A. Attached files Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank A. Posted January 6, 2010 Share Posted January 6, 2010 Good morningsorry double postFrank A. Attached files Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ItsMeBobO Posted January 6, 2010 Author Share Posted January 6, 2010 The only thing Lowes had was the clamp style. I do like this one and will get some. Also I really don't like pushing the wires through in the yard. They should be plug and play. The cat5 needs a joiner but I didnt find that either so it had to go to the next box. The CCR needs one too LORDan! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melwelch Posted January 7, 2010 Share Posted January 7, 2010 If you guys go the way of trying to seal it up air tight... You might want to put something like an alkaselzer tablet in there too... The water that will leak in from the box heating and cooling will cause the tablet to fizz and pressure the case so water will be expelled....But the easiest thing to do is to include a drain hole in the bottom and no more water problem... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbo Posted January 8, 2010 Share Posted January 8, 2010 wow interesting to hear of this and other issues in this thread......none of it applies here in Australia except for maybe rain, but no cold temperatures, instead the opposite, the quicker we get our lights down the better before they melt in the soaring temperatures, expecting 41 degrees celcius this coming Monday which equates to 105.8F 34 Tomorrow which equates to 100.4F not nice being yp on the iron roof in those temperatures.Which I guess is the reason a lot of us here may use fm transmitters but we often get people walking by in t-shirt and shorts walking through the streets seeking out the christmas displays.I had no problems with my tear down, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve synek Posted January 9, 2010 Share Posted January 9, 2010 FrankCan you get 2x cat 5 cables and a power cord through one of these connectors?SteveFrank A. wrote: Good morningBobI would change those clamp style fittings to grommet styleFrank A. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank A. Posted January 15, 2010 Share Posted January 15, 2010 Good eveningyes you probably could fit2 cat5's and one power cord thru the fittingbut not with the ends on the cat 5'sthe cable is going to occupy enough spacethat the second rj45 connector would not fitplus the grommet probably would not seal three cablesFrank A. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dad02 Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 Robbo wrote: wow interesting to hear of this and other issues in this thread......none of it applies here in Australia except for maybe rain, but no cold temperatures, instead the opposite, the quicker we get our lights down the better before they melt in the soaring temperatures, expecting 41 degrees celcius this coming Monday which equates to 105.8F 34 Tomorrow which equates to 100.4F not nice being yp on the iron roof in those temperatures.Which I guess is the reason a lot of us here may use fm transmitters but we often get people walking by in t-shirt and shorts walking through the streets seeking out the christmas displays.I had no problems with my tear down,Trade you. Send some of that our way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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