From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 30 0:16:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E11437B401 for ; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 00:16:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from foem.leiden.webweaving.org (fia224-72.dsl.hccnet.nl [62.251.72.224]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FEFD43EA9 for ; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 00:16:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dirkx@webweaving.org) Received: from foem (foem [10.11.0.2]) by foem.leiden.webweaving.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBU8GEfh082387 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Mon, 30 Dec 2002 09:16:14 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from dirkx@webweaving.org) Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 09:16:14 +0100 (CET) From: Dirk-Willem van Gulik X-X-Sender: dirkx@foem.leiden.webweaving.org To: Doug Hardie Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Water Damage In-Reply-To: <04740E73-1BCD-11D7-B574-000393681B06@lafn.org> Message-ID: <20021230091018.B56421-100000@foem.leiden.webweaving.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I have carefully dried out all the units. You may want to use some distilled water, or very clean water, if there is any visible residue/chalk/salt on the boards. What I normally do with WiFi equipment which got wet/soaked is to rinse them well with very clean water and then dry them in an oven with the door open or with a hair dryer. This works well. Note that water may collect in places like coils and under IC's and inside drives. If it was salt water then *immediately* rinse them with fresh water or demineralized water to stop corrosion (and keep them wet until you can do so). Though with salt water if the machine was on you are often too late. My experience is that also normal tap water has enough conductivty to ruin a machine when it is switched on before it is 100% dry everywhere. The high voltage power supply is in my experience the first thing to give. Dw To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message