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Thermal noise
June 23, 2008
In early June, the temperature prematurely rose into the to about 95
oF for four straight days. In New England, three or more days of 90+ temperatures qualifies as a heat wave. Knowing that the heat wouldn't last long, I hesitated installing the air conditioner in my home office. On the second day of the heat wave, my desktop PC sounded louder--much louder--than ever. I thought that perhaps the hard drive was failing, but I remembered that the noise started just after the temperature rose. A day after the outside temperature dropped into the 80s, the PC's sound returned to normal. Something had clearly expanded in the hot weather, causing the noise.
That was two weeks ago and I still haven't installed the air conditioner.
Posted by Martin Rowe on June 23, 2008 | Comments (0)
