First:
In the hardware description on the empeg site is the following statement:

The operating temperature range of the head unit is from 5 degrees
C to 55 degrees C, and the non-operating range extends down to
-20 degrees C. If it gets colder than this the unit can simply be
removed from the car and taken inside. This is the recommended
procedure anyway, both for theft-prevention and environmental
control. A temperature sensor inside the unit ensures that the hard
disks will not operate outside the allowed range, although we
expect to allow the user to override this safeguard in a future
software release.

I can state with some authority that the empeg's hard drives will take right off at temperatures as low as -12 degrees C (that's +10 degrees F for the metric-averse). I haven't experimented with temperatures lower than that.

Is this temperature sensor thing not implemented? Has the user been allowed "...to override this safeguard"? Is it just not working right? Will I damage my hard drives by operating them in these temperatures?

Second:
Under no circumstances will Emplode see my empeg through USB unless, after everything is connected and booted, I pull the USB cable from the back of the empeg and reinsert it, then click on the "refresh" button in emplode. Not a big deal, but if it happened to a novice user it might cause some confusion.

tanstaafl.



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