Instead of getting clever with water, it's water that caused this problem in the first place. I always place wet electrical items in a bowl of uncooked rice overnight in the airing cupboard. Works every time for remotes, key fobs, calculators etc.
Does rain kill electric stuff?
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Your still talking out your posterior.
My still is doing what?
As myself and Tefal pointed out, there are free ions in water, which conduct. Fact.
yes I overstated how much, but my point stands that it's a worse idea to wash the remote with water (de-i or otherwise) than to just leave it to dry. Dry crystals don't conduct, adding more water is only likely to cause more damage.
Lies
hey don;t drag me to your side, for all intents and purposes pure water is an insulator
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No it's better as it removes all the crap that the other water left behind which can cause short circuits.
It should be washed (with all power/batteries disconnected) then left to dry.
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Just to be clear and to carry this even further off-topic I was actually on your side on this one. I wasn't taking the ****
Truth.
I wasn't dragging you anywhere. I was just saying that we agreed that water has free ions in it.
Spectacularly few though, not enough to make it conductive.
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Fox, go to that well known high street/out of town electronics store and get yourself some electrical cleaner in an aerosol
Give it a good spray and it should disperse any moisture and clean any contacts.
Now children, stop all this squabbling about water - it's crap for electrical stuff........full stop!
Give it a good spray and it should disperse any moisture and clean any contacts.
Now children, stop all this squabbling about water - it's crap for electrical stuff........full stop!
Lies.
It has an ion conctentration of 2x10^-7 M which means that it will conduct to some extent. I didn't specify how much it would conduct, just that it would, and it will.
I am technically correct, which is the best kind of corect
utter tosh.
It has an ion conctentration of 2x10^-7 M which means that it will conduct to some extent. I didn't specify how much it would conduct, just that it would, and it will.
I am technically correct, which is the best kind of corect
Fortunately though this is engineering not maths and as such real world results and affects, and tolerances are preferred over theoretical figures
also there is no such word as conctentration ¬_¬
It has an ion conctentration of 2x10^-7 M which means that it will conduct to some extent. I didn't specify how much it would conduct, just that it would, and it will.
I am technically correct, which is the best kind of corect
Just. Give. It. Up.
Purely theoretically yes, in REALITY. No.
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No it's not!
Lies.
No, theoretically and practically it will conduct. Just not very much.
I'm satisfied that I was correct in what I was saying, and that my knowledge was correct. You just used google, and still I was more technically correct. You're the one who needs to give up
No, theoretically and practically it will conduct. Just not very much.
I'm satisfied that I was correct in what I was saying, and that my knowledge was correct. You just used google, and still I was more technically correct. You're the one who needs to give up
I never needed google to tell me I was right, I stated that in the first place. Just trying to get something to shut you up about the ions.
Go back to sleep.
