In a time of a global down turn, everyone is looking to save money, now how can you save money at home and at work? Well, if you look after our computers they should last years, just take a look at your keyboard, turn it over and see the amount of crumbs and dust fall out. Now the frightening thought, what about the bacteria the keyboard holds? It is said that public toilets are cleaner than the average keyboard!

There are 3 main problems for computers that will cause them to malfunction or fail totally. If you can protect computers form these harmful elements, you will be saving yourself and your company money.

Dust, is one of the main hazards of standard computers, dust when it comes into contact with the hard drive, will corrupt and even erase valuable data stored on the hard drive if it penetrates the case and depending if your home or office computer is in venerable location, it could fail in days or weeks. So you can vacuum your computer area to make sure the majority of dust is removed from were the computer is located and you can even vacuum the computer.

Fluid - fluid can come in many forms from water in the home or office to cutting coolant on a factory floor, if this gets in to any electronic components, the electronic components just corrode, causing the computer hardware to fail or cost a lot of money in repair costs. For this you can put the computer out of reach of any fluid, by locating the computer in a remote are, however there are problems with this, you will have to extend the cabling network.

Operator abuse - this can be controlled at home, from unruly teenagers who download goodness knows what from the internet, but there have been cases were employees have brought in games from home to play on work computers during the night shift. As the night shift workers know the Management don't monitor them as much as the day shift.

The ultimate solution would be to house the computer and peripherals in a PC enclosure; this is a special steel case that provides a safe and protective environment for the computer, monitor and keyboard, so it does not matter if the area of work or home is dusty or if fluids are present, these enclosures are NEMA and IP rated. Meaning they have been tested in demanding conditions to provide the relevant dust and fluid protection. Cable entry is covered by special cable grommets that are even waterproof, so no dust will penetrate into the PC enclosure.

The units are normally supplied with special filtered fan units, these provide a positive air pressure inside the enclosure, and this allows hot air to leave the enclosure, whilst cleaned, filtered cool air is sucked into the enclosure, cooling the computer hardware.

As for general cleaning, the computer enclosures are normally powder coated so the exterior only needs a wipe over with a damp cloth to remove surface dust. This is the dust that will kill your computer.



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