I remember an incident 10 years ago at a theatre in Copenhagen. I was returning the next morning discovering all electricity were gone because of a short cicuit caused by a LaCie SCSI drive that had gone for a swim. On stage was a shallow bassin (approx 2-3 inches of water) where the instruments of a folk/rock band was setup (performing in gumboots (-; ) The drive (connected to sampler) was attached to a keyboard stand with duct tape which had given in during the night so the drive had fallen 3 feet down into the water while still spinning. It looked like the fan had propelled the enclosure for a little cruise because the SCSI cable was tensioned, but the earth faullt relay had problably kicked in immediately. Anyhow, the enclosure was disassembled, the drive and psu was dried carefully and was later powerred up and happy spinning with out loss of data or hardware.
Likewise a roland sh-101 synth went to the bottom of lake when it was placed on a board of polystyren foam at a photo session. It survived, being dried completety and after working all the knobs and faders a little it was back to mint condition.
Electronics and water is just fine as long as the power is removed immediately and it is allowed to dry completely. Salt water is a different thing ;-)
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I remember an incident 10 years ago at a theatre in Copenhagen.
I was returning the next morning discovering all electricity were gone because of a short cicuit caused by a LaCie SCSI drive that had gone for a swim.
On stage was a shallow bassin (approx 2-3 inches of water) where the instruments of a folk/rock band was setup (performing in gumboots (-; )
The drive (connected to sampler) was attached to a keyboard stand with duct tape which had given in during the night so the drive had fallen 3 feet down into the water while still spinning.
It looked like the fan had propelled the enclosure for a little cruise because the SCSI cable was tensioned, but the earth faullt relay had problably kicked in immediately.
Anyhow, the enclosure was disassembled, the drive and psu was dried carefully and was later powerred up and happy spinning with out loss of data or hardware.
Likewise a roland sh-101 synth went to the bottom of lake when it was placed on a board of polystyren foam at a photo session. It survived, being dried completety and after working all the knobs and faders a little it was back to mint condition.
Electronics and water is just fine as long as the power is removed immediately and it is allowed to dry completely. Salt water is a different thing ;-)