Re: Cell Phone -- What remains wet?

Thanks to all who have contributed to this thread. I have benefited from
all of the remarks. I must admit I wasn't thinking of residual mineral or
other type of deposits. When dry I thought that these would be in the order
of megohms and since the cell phone works at such a low voltage, they would
not matter.

Everything that I had around, distilled water and alcohol, had measurable
conductivity. I even measured some vodka. It too had measurable
conductivity, but after properly disposing of it, I didn't care as much. So
today I bought some Electronic Cleaner at my local Radio Shack. It comes
with a brush to clean the printed circuit board. By tomorrow I should know
whether I accomplished anything.

Thanks to all again,
Dan

"GregS" <zekfrivo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In article <AOSdnXoPIf2S-8TVnZ2dnUVZ_sTinZ2d@xxxxxxx>, "Dan Dubosky"
<ddubosky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I am attempting to rescue my LG cell phone which spent about 15 minutes in
about six feet of water in a fresh water lake. I took it apart, dried
everything out, and everything now works except the battery discharges
much
more rapidly even when the cell phone is OFF. This is not the same
battery
that was in the lake. Could it be the circuit board itself that is still
wet, and if so, will it ever dry out?

I spent a combined effort of several hours first trying to dry the phone.
I did that successfully
before, not this time. Although dring it under a lamp and also using a
desicant improved it greatly.
I finally had the phone apart several times carefully cleaning, scraping,
and also using some
Bullfrog contact cleaner. After a week the phone seemed to go into a mode
and say the battery
was low, but would sometimes come back without shutting down. After a
longer period the owner
now reports its OK. ??

greg


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