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this youtuber is litrly washing pc parts lol how do they still work?
edit : its at 1 min
edit : its at 1 min
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Putting water on an unpowered PCB is not going to affect anything, there is no power flowing through it to short anything out. I would not really suggest doing it with tap water as he is doing as the deposits that can be left behind are generally not great but he's drying all the components thoroughly so its not the end of the world.
Short answer, water on powered electronics is bad. None of those parts were powered, with proper drying it can be just fine.
i see thanks! learning new things by the day hahahaYou can wash really dirty parts in distilled water with a toothbrush and let them dry extremely well and there will be no problem. I used to do it when I fixed/rebuilt my smoker buddies PC because it had that nasty tar on it.
Like criccio said the only thing to avoid is tap water because of the various minerals in it that can cause damage.
this youtuber is litrly washing pc parts lol how do they still work?
edit : its at 1 min
unplug, hit power button, now caps drained.If there are capacitors on a board which has been powered on recently, it can still damage the board. Those are short term batteries in essence.
Most boards in PC's have capacitors.
So, do not use water ever to be sure, just use alcohol.
Still is tricky, doesn't drain all caps on all boards, just not worth the risk. If a capacitor is drain before the chain of the board you are washing is up, the it will still hold a charge. Just do not use water to be sure.unplug, hit power button, now caps drained.
lol ok... people have been doing it forever, its fine.Still is tricky, doesn't drain all caps on all boards, just not worth the risk. If a capacitor is drain before the chain of the board you are washing is up, the it will still hold a charge. Just do not use water to be sure.
Myself included... Especially on smoker PC's.lol ok... people have been doing it forever, its fine.
i once dropped my cellphone into a pond. it sat at the bottom for two weeks until i got a kid to fish it out for me. i dried it out, cleaned up some rust and mud, and it worked fine for most of a year until i upgraded. the thing that saved it, was the battery popped off when it hit the dock before hitting the water.I work in electronics manufacturing. Distilled water is completely fine for cleaning electronics as long as no electricity runs through it. The large cleaning machine at work uses distilled water to wash components. When I was in the Navy back in the 1990's, the movers dropped a box in about two feet of water that had my computer in it. I was panicking that the computer was ruined. One of my friends was an electronics technician said it was most likely okay. He got a hair drier and we disassembled the computer. He used the hair drier to dry everything off. We put it back together and the computer powered on.
You can use tap water as long as you rinse it off with ISO alcohol. Typically I don't use water and just go straight for the ISO, but really nasty shit needs hot water typicallyYou can wash really dirty parts in distilled water with a toothbrush and let them dry extremely well and there will be no problem. I used to do it when I fixed/rebuilt my smoker buddies PC because it had that nasty tar on it.
Like criccio said the only thing to avoid is tap water because of the various minerals in it that can cause damage.
I washed a mobo that was covered in cat hair and dust so bad I thought it came from King Tut's Tomb. Plopped in dishwasher and voila, like new. It booted fine too.Some people even wash PC parts in the dish washer
they never told me that when I was a tech at HP performing component level Instrumentation repairs. We even added soap to the water - go figureStill is tricky, doesn't drain all caps on all boards, just not worth the risk. If a capacitor is drain before the chain of the board you are washing is up, the it will still hold a charge. Just do not use water to be sure.
this youtuber is litrly washing pc parts lol how do they still work?
edit : its at 1 min
So, do not use water ever to be sure, just use alcohol.
And if you hold down the power button you'll drain most if not all of the flea power (if external power is off) too.Most alcohol is still partially water. It's almost impossible to get alcohol to 100 percent because it will draw water out of the atmosphere into it. A lot of isopropyl alcohol is 70 percent alcohol and 30 percent water.
I've used lightly soapy hot water to clean components for years, without an issue. Most components have circuits that slowly bleed down any electricity in the caps even if they're unplugged. I wouldn't turn them off and immediately transfer them to water, but an overnight rest will do it for sure.
CRTs on the other hand...