Garage Heat Killing Your Gear? Florida Rules for Electronics

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140-degree garages versus batteries, drives, and routers — what survives, what dies, and where to move it.

1. Know the casualties: batteries first

Lithium batteries swell and fail fast above 110 degrees sustained — laptops, tools, and backup banks suffer first. Hard drives and capacitors age roughly twice as fast per 18 degrees above room temperature.

2. Move the vulnerable inside

Batteries, backup drives, and rarely-used laptops belong in climate-controlled space — a closet beats any garage. Networking gear that must live there gets ventilation and shade, never sealed boxes.

3. Insulate what must stay

For garage TVs, fridges-with-screens, and workshop PCs: shade from direct sun, raise off concrete (condensation), and add a thermometer with phone alerts. Monitoring beats discovering.

Garage Heat Killing Your Gear? Florida Rules for Electronics — When to Call a Pro

Swollen batteries anywhere — safe removal and disposal, promptly.
Garage office or workshop needing climate-proofed tech setup.
Heat-damaged gear assessment — what survived, what to retire.

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Guide FAQ

Sustained 110-plus kills batteries within a season; 130-plus threatens everything. Tampa garages hit both — measure yours in August before deciding.

Yes — attics run 20 to 30 degrees hotter than garages. Nothing electronic belongs in a Florida attic, ever.

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