You should be fine.
The worst enemy to your layout is mold attacking your paper and cardboard in the basements during the summer. Basements get very humid during the summer and mold just loves to attach to these types of material.
Don - Specializing in layout DC->DCC conversions
Modeling C&O transition era and steel industries There's Nothing Like Big Steam!
If adverse weather were going to effect DCC equipment, our clubhouse system would have bitten the dust long ago because we are in a builiding with no central heat or air conditioning. Summer temperatures sometimes approach 100 degree in the building and winter temperatures dip into the upper 30's.
You're usually ok as long as you don't have condensation forming.
Springfield PA
SHould be fine, in or out of the boxes. At my previous house, the basement was unfinished, and I had a layout with DCC set up there for 3 years. No heat, no air conditioning. Humidity in summer got rather high even with a dehumidifier running. None of my DCC stuff ever had a problem. And even with the unfinished walls, floor, and ceiling, the only time I even had to clean my track was after paiting the sides of the rail, some paint always manages to get ont h top and needs to be scraped off.
--Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
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I hope this is the place to ask my question.I have bought several dcc idems to get started with my layout but as I am slow doing things I am storeing them in my basement.It does have heat and airconditioning down there .My question is should I be doing something other than leaveing them in the boxes on the shelves down there?? Thank you for any info I can use because it looks like I might not be putting these to work for maybe a year or so .