{"id":389,"date":"1998-10-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1998-10-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/?p=389"},"modified":"2007-04-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-27T00:00:00","slug":"dust-components","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/dust-components\/","title":{"rendered":"Dust On Components"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An inSync reader recently inquired about the dust build up in his computer asking if it is a problem for the components.Dust doesn&#8217;t normally hurt electronic components other than to prevent them from running as cool as they should (it takes a LOT of dust to make much of a difference). It&#8217;s probably not a bad idea to blow your gear out with some compressed air once in a while if its getting really dusty. You need to be extremely careful doing this though. Compressed air can cause two problems: 1) It will cool when becoming uncompressed and can cause water to condense around the nozzle and on components, and 2) Static can build up around a metal nozzle that is spewing large amounts of air like this. That static is fatal to IC chips. Grounding the nozzle can solve #2, but #1 just takes care on your part to be judicious with how much air you are spraying around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[],"tags":[],"storecat":[],"itemids":[],"manufacturers":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Check out the Dust On Components page at Sweetwater \u2014 the world&#039;s leading music technology and instrument retailer!\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/dust-components\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dust On Components - SweetCare\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"An inSync reader recently inquired about the dust build up in his computer asking if it is a problem for the components.Dust doesn&#8217;t normally hurt electronic components other than to prevent them from running as cool as they should (it takes a LOT of dust to make much of a difference). 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