Dealing with humidity is one thing, but it’s terrible at drawing “whole” water out of something.
And it’s not the water that’s the problem, it’s like you said, it’s the gunk and minerals it leaves behind.
Isopropyl alcohol will push water out of any cracks and crevices, if you’re able to submerge bare boards in it. If you do it before the minerals have a chance to dry and corrode, it will get pushed out with the water.
Again untrue whatever you think is “whole” water, any dessicant will absolutely undoubtedly help with evaporation.
Not every person is tech savvy enough to open boards. Advice for most novices is still put phone between dessicant to get water out of the device is valid and good advice.
Would using isopropyl alcohol be better option? Sure it is. but telling my aunt to do it, and device will probably die because she doesn’t know how to handle pcbs anyway. I’d much rather just advice using dessicant and hope mineral residue doesn’t sort anything. And I’ll continue with that advice forever.
Dealing with humidity is one thing, but it’s terrible at drawing “whole” water out of something.
And it’s not the water that’s the problem, it’s like you said, it’s the gunk and minerals it leaves behind.
Isopropyl alcohol will push water out of any cracks and crevices, if you’re able to submerge bare boards in it. If you do it before the minerals have a chance to dry and corrode, it will get pushed out with the water.
Again untrue whatever you think is “whole” water, any dessicant will absolutely undoubtedly help with evaporation.
Not every person is tech savvy enough to open boards. Advice for most novices is still put phone between dessicant to get water out of the device is valid and good advice.
Would using isopropyl alcohol be better option? Sure it is. but telling my aunt to do it, and device will probably die because she doesn’t know how to handle pcbs anyway. I’d much rather just advice using dessicant and hope mineral residue doesn’t sort anything. And I’ll continue with that advice forever.
But it doesn’t help with evaporation. It actually prevents it by preventing air from circulating.