[Grassroots-l] Moisture and salt water: any experience?

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Marten Vijn wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 18:43 +0200, s.boutayeb at free.fr wrote:
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>> hi all,
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>> OLPC France is preparing a "mini" deployment of 100 XOs in a small island in
>> Madagascar (see http://www.nosykomba.org and http://antitourne.free.fr/).
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>> So, considering the marine environment, and the potential risk of the exposition
>> of the Xos to salt water, does anyone has experienced problems caused by salt
>> water or moisture on any part of the XOs?
>>
>> Thank you for your feedback!
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> # incidents
> I think there it not a big difference with coffee :)
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> You can save a lot damage by:
> - when it gets wet remove the battery immediately
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> then:
> - take the XO apart clean it form salt 
> - let dry ~ 3 days
> - test it on power supply, without the battery
> - when switching on, and it works, leave it on for a couple of hours
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> When it broken check the motherboard for corruption and so.
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> # structural issues
> If it is a general problem you may consider to protect the XO  
> by using a spray that protects it against water. A problem may be
> that once "salted" motherboards keep attacking humidity from the air.
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> cheers,
> Marten
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>> Best regards
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>> Samy
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