[mythtv-users] HDHR in harsh enviroments (was:OT: OTA HD )

[David Brodbeck]

On Fri, December 26, 2008 9:40 am, Brian Wood wrote:
> I would expect that sort of high temp environment not to cause immediate
> failure, but rather to decrease the MTBF and result in failure before you
> might otherwise expect it. It might be difficult to trace this directly to
> the operating environment.

That's the most likely scenario, but in extreme cases you might get
thermal runaway, which can destroy transistors very quickly.  It depends
on whether there are any semiconductors in the HDHR that dissipate a lot
of power.