Anyone got any experience of premature hardware failures in a chlorine atmosphere? Specifically computers in a swimming pool type environment.
I understand the physics – Free chlorine gas with moisture forms corrosive Hydrochloric Acid – eats metal. Architects have understood this since the first roof over a swimming pool caved in because of corrosion.
Googling shows some attorneys claim to have won cases for damages for chlorine gas damage to computers. Fumigating the Senate Offices for Anthrax with chlorine in 2001 was also noted as probably going to cause problems with computers.
I?m trying to equip a computer room for a potential client ? it is right next to a pool and is not as well ventilated as it probably should be. I don?t want to be eating warranty in the future and it is a tough sell to the client to say the computers come unwarranted because of the environmental conditions. But I could make a much better VAR case if I helped them get it right and we costed in some extra ventilation.
If anyone has got good illustrative stories or can point me at scientific type web references I would love to hear from you!
TIA