Candle wax is mildly acidic and allows a certain amount of air to pass through (aromatic candles need not be lit to stench up a room). Andy James Cameron on 07/21/2000 07:16:15 PM Please respond to pic microcontroller discussion list To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU cc: (bcc: Andrew Kunz/TDI_NOTES) Subject: [EE]: Beeswax Encapsulation On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 02:41:02PM +1200, Lance Allen wrote: > Later we used complete encasement in beeswax , it helped alot. Within nothing underneath? Beeswax is probably available to me here in the outback ... I can always hunt down a beehive. I remember trying encapsulation with candlewax once, and found slight corrosion of some metals. Can you place your entire PCB in it or should you coat with something else first? -- James Cameron mailto:quozl@us.netrek.org http://quozl.netrek.org/ -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]: PIC only [EE]: engineering [OT]: off topic [AD]: advertisements -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu