> For waterlogged equipments, no problem until they are under the water level > (out of oxygen contact). > The best way after that will be to clean all of this waste and poluted > equipments with clear water during a long time (no more chimical products in > the clean water), and to quickly dry them.
Just to add a couple of comments to the above based on practical experience with electronics... - some hard drives are truly sealed (air tight) while others have some form of air filter for air circulation. If the drives don't have a filter, there is a high probability that simply cleaning the drive electronics and drying is all that is needed. - cleaning almost all forms of electronic equipment with tap water is acceptable, but then follow that with a rinse of distilled water. (As others have already noted, salt water is the worst to deal with after the equipment has been exposed to air.) If you can find a good printed circuit board cleaning solution, use it as a final rinse on electronics. - clean and rinse the inside of connectors (eg, usb, rj11, rj45, cable connectors) is more important then cleaning the external surface. Same with plated through holes in circuit boards. - Hair dryers (etc) can be used to help dry equipment, but be careful with assumptions relative to water that might have penetrated some components. It may take more time to dry completely then one might expect. Don't be in a hurry to fire up the hardware. Letting the equipment sit in a low humidity environment for a week or two is by far better then being in a hurry to fire it up. - Speakers will be junk regardless of cleaning methods - Its not uncommon for commercial recovery companies to suggest keeping electronic equipment, books, papers, etc, under water until it can be handed over to them. (Air contact without proper cleaning _will_ create more problems then the water itself.) - disassembling electronic equipment and cleaning all sides of printed circuit boards, etc, should be considered mandatory. (eg, remove the motherboard and clean it, remove the drive electronics and clean it.) In most cases the commercial recovery companies don't use anything more sophisticated then the processes noted above for electronics. They just have a little more hands-on experience doing it and we're all led to believe its magic. _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users