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Originally Posted by JA
1. Use clean fresh water to wash the dome and force dry with warm air on a regular basis. Do not allow to air dry unless air/water is very clean at the risk of leaving residue behind over many months.
2. Establish a program of remotely monitoring the dome cleanliness and setting the wash/dry cycle accordingly.
3. Consider adding detergent and/or rinse agent
4. Monitor dome for UV degradation of the plastic
5. Consider adding antibird spikes around dome.
6. You could even go crazy and automate a brush mechanism or lens visor tear-off protetcor if you were NASA
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JA
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Thanks for these suggestions. The automated brush idea is in line with what I was starting to realise would probably be necessary. I'm not looking forward to doing that but if it has to be, then so be it I guess.
In response to your point #1: do you think a tank of distilled water would be best, intermittently (e.g. weekly) spraying some of it onto the dome (along with e.g. Bars Bugs), and then warm-air-drying it?
Regarding your point #4. I thought I might have problems with the plastic yellowing and have since found a custom glass dome manufacturer. Waiting for a quote from them, but that'd presumably not degrade as rapidly as the plastic I was thinking of using.
Thanks for your help.
