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Oxidation, how to prevent?

I will soon move to a hot and humid area.

Can afford to run AC all day long not to mention it's not green, like your expert opinions how to prevent it?

Some of my equipments have shinny chrome faces, can I use car wax on them to prevent oxidation? What about RCA or XLR jacks? I don't think I want to use wax there since it will degrade sound, what other options do I have? I can put covers on the unused plugs, but it's not air tight and will still degrade over time.

I often read cartridge suspensions will dry up over time especially in hot weather, does humidity helps or is it worse? Will I be better off storing unused cartridges in humidity & temp control vault?
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hevac1
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There is a thermostat made by Honeywell that will dehumidify by using both heat and cooling even if from seperate sources. Baseboard heat with ducted A/C or Heat & A/C from ducts.
First it turns on the cooling to dehumidify and lower the tempature by a few degrees of setpoint then turns the heat on to bring the tempature back up, it does this till the desired humidity is reached. Once the humidity is under control the cost should be minimal but dehumidifing is not cheap if the area is not well sealed.
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