FR Battery fell into water, is it still useable?

2009-08-11 Thread Mikhail Umorin
It was fresh (tap) water. I pulled it out within 1 min. Has it been damaged (did it retain its capacity and won't damage the FR)? Mikhail. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: FR Battery fell into water, is it still useable?

2009-08-11 Thread Thomas HOCEDEZ
Mikhail Umorin a écrit : It was fresh (tap) water. I pulled it out within 1 min. Has it been damaged (did it retain its capacity and won't damage the FR)? Mikhail. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: FR Battery fell into water, is it still useable?

2009-08-11 Thread Yogiz
Put it in your Freerunner and tell us : P. I really doubt it would damage your Freerunner (although I'm not liable if it happens to do so). I think it'll either work as before or more likely, won't work at all. On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:24:57 -0500 Mikhail Umorin mike...@gmail.com wrote: It was

Re: FR Battery fell into water, is it still useable?

2009-08-11 Thread Tobias Diedrich
Mikhail Umorin wrote: It was fresh (tap) water. I pulled it out within 1 min. Has it been damaged (did it retain its capacity and won't damage the FR)? Well, surely a small amount of stored charge was lost due to current flowing between the contacts, but it can't lose capacity from that,

Re: FR Battery fell into water, is it still useable?

2009-08-11 Thread Erik Geiger
Am Tuesday 11 August 2009 17:24:57 schrieb Mikhail Umorin: It was fresh (tap) water. I pulled it out within 1 min. Has it been damaged (did it retain its capacity and won't damage the FR)? My wife washed one of my batteries with my trousers in the washing maschine and it still works

Re: FR Battery fell into water, is it still useable?

2009-08-11 Thread roguemoko
On 12/08/2009 4:30 AM, Erik Geiger wrote: Am Tuesday 11 August 2009 17:24:57 schrieb Mikhail Umorin: It was fresh (tap) water. I pulled it out within 1 min. Has it been damaged (did it retain its capacity and won't damage the FR)? My wife washed one of my batteries with my trousers in the

Re: FR Battery fell into water, is it still useable?

2009-08-11 Thread Kosa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Don't fear... It won't be damaged for only 1minute and in tap Water. Salted water (sea) can damage it. Yes it can, My FR got dropped into the sea and it's dead. It still turns on an I get a bright-white screen as the WSOD, and the wierd thing, it

Re: FR Battery fell into water, is it still useable?

2009-08-11 Thread Mikhail Umorin
On Tuesday 11 August 2009 10:24:57 Mikhail Umorin wrote: It was fresh (tap) water. I pulled it out within 1 min. Has it been damaged (did it retain its capacity and won't damage the FR)? Mikhail. Thank you all for the suggestions and comments. I dried my battery with a paper towel and let