In a few months, I will hopefully be building a new home pc. I wanna get the most out of my old system, so I have been tossing around the idea of putting it in my kitchen. Now my old system, and by old I mean WinME old, has a CRT. Now this big ass thing ain't sticking around of course. My real question is would it hurt a flat panel LCD monitor to be wall mounted about 12" to 18" above my stove? I basically want to put the monitor there and have that pc store all of our recipes and have music files for when I or my wife are cooking. I know on older devices with the green LCD screens that heat a lot of times made the screen turn black for a while till it cooled back down. You think that would be a problem still or what? Also I found a 17" LCD with touchscreen and figured that would be the best interface for my idea, but would the touchscreen be affected by the heat as well? I googled a couple of variations on my question and only got that LCDs put out less heat than CRTs, not what I am looking for. Any help will be appreciated.
I wouldn't mount anything like that behind a stove the heat and grease would destroy it in a matter of months. Mount it off to the side away from any heat source or anything that will splash. The biggest enemy of anything electronic is heat.
that is pretty much what I figured, I would have had to run a pretty long cord to the darn thing anyways. I knew better than to stick the pc right next to the stove. i will have to just figure out a better place to mount it away from heat but still easy to use for my idea. Thanks.
Do you have a cabinet that has junk in it? You can always throw the PC in there and drill a hole to run the cables up to the monitor.
That's a great idea, Robman... A PC in the kitchen... Now you've got my gears turning... Trouble is, I usually just through shit together haphazardly, "a pinch of this or that" literally goes into every preparation, it seems. How about a touch-panel LCD mounted to your fridge door? I've seen fridges at Best Buy that have LCD TV's in them, maybe a modified one of those, even...
I actually thought of the same thing, but I don't think my wife would even allow that. I have a cabinet, that I think my tower would fit into, next to a counter space that could hold a 17" or smaller monitor. Throw in either a touch screen or a wireless mouse and keyboard, to put away when not in use, and I would be, no pun intended, cooking. I just need a new pc for my Comp room.
