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Cold storage & freezer rooms

Cold rooms at −18 to −25°C, or food-prep rooms at 2–8°C. Operators wear thick gloves and work with wet hands. Every time the cold-room door opens, humid outside air rushes in and condenses into water on every cold surface — including inside the machine.

Panel PC Usable with gloves on · 8 series · 137 models Industrial computer Runs the warehouse, no screen · 17 series · 45 models

A box PC running the warehouse — automated racking, scales, inbound/outbound management — placed in the cold room or in a technical room right beside it. No screen, so gloves are not an issue; what it has to withstand is sub-zero temperatures and condensing humid air.

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Starts up below zero. Running at −20°C and STARTING at −20°C are two different things. A machine that lost power overnight in the cold room and gets switched back on in the morning is the real test — the number to look at is the lower bound of the operating range.

17 Industrial computer series meet all the conditions

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Where people get caught out

Things the filter above does NOT catch. Read before you commit.

  • The machine should run 24/7 so it stays warmer than the surrounding air — powering off overnight and back on is the recipe for water inside the machine.
  • Spinning hard drives (HDD) are not recommended below 5°C. Use wide-temperature industrial SSDs.

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