gEDA-user: OT: UV exposure?

[Dave McGuire]

On Jun 27, 2006, at 10:34 PM, Steve Meier wrote:
> It takes a fair amount of time for the UV light to break down the nylon
> of a tent on a high mountain. I suspect, that UV light won't effect the
> performance of your board. I would be more worried about moisture and
> corrosion. Any possibility you could put a lot of epoxy all over your
> board except for the photo diodes?

   That's a very good possibility.  I can mount the other components on 
the other side of the board, put the photodiode array on the 
sunlight-facing side, and mask off everything except the photodiodes.  
That'd be easy without the obstruction of other upward-poking 
components.

           -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL