> Alan's various other suggestions were interesting as they
> unsurprisingly reflect some of the things I've thought about to keep
> sealed torches condensation free. If you take a waterproof light, heat
> it in the sun until it is nice and toasty hot and then cool it rapidly
> - bucket of water, stream, tropical shower etc - under some conditions
> you push the RH in the light over 100% and you get short term internal
> misting. This makes it hard to assess ongoing waterproofness and no
> doubt leads customers to wonder as well.
> I've considered dry gas purges and dessicants.=20

Yeah, well, I threw that in there as solarwind appears to be doing this
at the university, possibly as part of a research thing the uni is
doing, so they are likely to have nitrogen available somewhere on
campus, even if not in the particular section that he is working in.
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