WAIT! NO! - RE: When your day goes in the toilet

[Jeannie Grassi]

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Dave,

You were very lucky, indeed.  The day after I got my Dell Axim (about two
years ago...) I was standing up and using it and it slipped out of my hands
into the dog's water dish!  It was dead.  But, luckily I had bought extra
insurance when I bought it and they replaced it, no questions asked, and I
had a new one delivered in 24 hours.  Dell's extended warranty service is
the best.  

 

jeannie

 

Jeannie Grassi, RPT

Assistant Editor, Piano Technicians Journal

 <mailto:jcgrassi@earthlink.net> mailto:jcgrassi@earthlink.net

 

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From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Piannaman@aol.com
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 10:55 PM
To: pianotech@ptg.org
Subject: Re: WAIT! NO! - RE: When your day goes in the toilet

 

In a message dated 5/20/05 10:49:00 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
ivories.52@earthlink.net writes:

When you get an electronic device wet, for whatever reason, and it was
turned on at the time, you will be lucky if it lives at all. Almost all
liquids hold dissolved solids likes salts and minerals and a whole bunch of
other stuff that is usually conductive. A wet device usually dies when power
is applied to components that have contacts shorted out with these dissolved
conductive solids. What happens is the contacts short out and delicate
components go "paff", kablooie. If this were to happen to your TV you would
get sparks, smoke and possibly fire. On a cell phone, a PDA or a laptop it's
just quietly dead. 

Geoff,

 

Luckily my PDA was off.  I wasn't certain at the time it happened, though.
I envisioned millions of tiny short circuits causing electronic brain death.
I was ready to buy another one, actually, and I was quite surprised when it
worked again.  It's completely back to normal.

 

Thanks for the info,

 

Dave S.


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