<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: = Verdana" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=rol= e_document face=Verdana color=#000000 size=3> <DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 5/20/05 10:49:00 PM Pacific Daylight Time, ivories.52@earthlink.net writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><= FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Verdana color=#000000 siz= e=3><SPAN class=484091405-21052005>When you get an electronic device wet, for what= ever 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 usuall= y dies when power is applied to components that have contacts shorted out wi= th these dissolved conductive solids. What happens is the contacts short out = and delicate components go "paff", kablooie. If this were to happen to yo= ur TV you would get sparks, smoke and possibly fire. On a cell phone,&nb= sp;a PDA or a laptop it's just quietly dead. </SPAN></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV>Geoff,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Luckily my PDA was off.  I wasn't certain at the time it happened,= though.  I envisioned millions of tiny short circuits causing electroni= c 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.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Thanks for the info,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Dave S.</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>