Computerized Truck key fobs and unexpected swims

[garzilla]

Re: Computerized Truck key fobs and unexpected swims

If you immerse anything electronic in water you can save it most of the time by putting it in rubbing alcohol and leaving it in there for some time to absorb all the water. If you can, remove the battery first. I keep a big bottle of 90% isopropyl alcohol at the lake and at home for exactly this purpose. Key fobs are easy. I've used it on my iPhone. (of course, someone had to call while I was looking at it under the water after it fell in) It works on cordless phones in the bathtub too.
The alcohol is non corrosive to electronics and does not conduct electricity well. It absorbs the water quickly and carries it away when you take it out to dry. (The screen on the iPhone was never quite the same but is still working two years later.)

SeaSense makes some quick waterproof bags for phones and such.

Yup....I've heard to get said item into a covered bowl of rice too.....sucks the moisture out of it or something.
I don't think anybody on here keeps a bag of un cooked rice on their boats though..LOL

 

[Thalasso]

Re: Computerized Truck key fobs and unexpected swims

My guess it will not work. How it works is the key transmitts a resistent's that is measured by a resister mounted at the bottom of the steering wheel coloum. Needless to say, electronics and moisture don't go together.

 

[jopes]

Re: Computerized Truck key fobs and unexpected swims

Yup....I've heard to get said item into a covered bowl of rice too.....sucks the moisture out of it or something.
I don't think anybody on here keeps a bag of un cooked rice on their boats though..LOL

my wife dropped her phone not once, not twice, but 3 times in water. Same phone, all 3 times I pulled the battery, used a can of compressed computer air then put them in a bowl of dry rice for 24 hours. phone still works if you turn it on and that was 3 years ago when she dunked it.