[Payphone Jones]

Anyone ever have one under water? Advice? Effin boat dealer left the plug in. Three inches of rain in two hours yesterday. They were wet for about an hour I'd say.

 

[amsugg]

Let it dry out or if you want to open the case and put rice on it i have saved many an electronic device that way don't know if its the same for converters tho

 

[CarpCowboy]

Rice was the first thing that came to my mind also.

 

[TrevorM]

Yep. Put it in a rubbermaid and cover it with rice unless you can find desiccant pellets. They work a lot better but large quantities are hard to come by

 

[garpwacker]

As long as weren't powered when got wee should be ok, just let it dry out real good as said, have seen lots of wet or flooded electrical components and still worked after dried out...

Have also put stuff in oven with door open set on real low 125 degree range and worked also

 

[jb-hunter]

Sorry to say, powered on or not they likely had power to them via the batteries. Ours never worked again after being wet and not in use due to a similar situation.

 

[GaryBriggs]

I too lost one that got wet, it worked sporadically for awhile after I dried it out, this it $hit the bed.

 

[Xarmy2005]

desiccant Is easy to come buy if you have a body shop supply store near by, we sell them in large bags to dry the compressor air.

 

[amsugg]

I wonder if you could buy a desiccant bag from a parts store and cut it open and use all the insides? It's a part for an air conditioner on cars and are usually cheap

 

[Xarmy2005]

desiccant Beads come in both a bagged version usualy used for a ct-30 Part # DeVilbiss 130504 CAMAIR Replacement Desiccant Cartridge for CT30 Filter or loose beads Devilbiss dad-1 , they are on amazon or a parts store/ boady shop supple store can get them.

 

[Payphone Jones]

Luckily, no batteries were hooked up. I'm gonna rice em tomorrow if I get a chance.

 

[JPHolla]

Silica gel can also be had from craft stores for drying flowers or from Walmart in the cat litter section. Cat litter kind is probably cheapest. It can be re-dried in an oven and reused.

 

[CarpCowboy]

Silica gel can also be had from craft stores for drying flowers or from Walmart in the cat litter section. Cat litter kind is probably cheapest. It can be re-dried in an oven and reused.

Or along the same lines they sell canisters of it for gun safes that can also be re-dried in the oven.

 

[Magnolia Outdoors Guy]

Silica gel can also be had from craft stores for drying flowers or from Walmart in the cat litter section. Cat litter kind is probably cheapest. It can be re-dried in an oven and reused.

I just imagined the smell of roasted cat scat!

 

[JPHolla]

I just imagined the smell of roasted cat scat!

Hey, don't knock it till you try it!:laugh:

 

[Payphone Jones]

I never had time to do anything with them, but they both worked fine when I plugged them in. Time will tell......

 

[KMckie786]

Personally I would try a warm oven before rice.