Re: keyboards

I have had the opposite experience. When a spill occurs take it out of
servce immediately. turn it upside down & let it dry. Usually it will
recover without further problems.

On Sun, 3 Sep 2006 02:37:09 -0500, "Jon Slaughter"
<Jon_Slaughter@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I seem to go through keyboard like its candy. Almost always its because I
spill something on them(and even those anti-spill keyboards don't do much
good).

Just a while ago I spilled some rubbing alchohol on my keyboard(near the
main enter key). almost immediately the keyboard stopped responding. I took
all the keys out and cleaned everything using an air compressor. It didn't
do any good.

My question is why is it so easy to screw up a keyboard? Why do spills
almost immedately screw up the circuitry? I do know the sometimes the liquid
will get inbetween the sheets of plastic that contain the pressure sensors
and that sometimes causes problems but usually isn't hard to fix. If the
voltage is only a few voltages(5 volts or so max for a USB keyboard?) then
how could any liquid really short out anyhthing? And thats assuming the
liquid gets in the circuitry. My recent spill was almost entirely on the
keys and inbetween them. The construction of the keyboard only has a few
slots into the innards of the pressure sensors.

Just curious because I have about 10 keyboards laying around that don't work
and it would be nice to know. I know the easiest fix is not to be a clutz
but I've got better things to do at the moment than try to change that.

Thanks,
Jon

John Ferrell W8CCW
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