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Water Damage ......Help!

  • 12-10-2006 06:00PM
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    Posts: 2,862 ✭✭✭


    I wasn't sure where this belonged so here goes

    I spilled a bottle of water in my handbag this morning on the way to work
    And luckily I didn’t have my mobile or mp3 player in it, but I did have my digital camera in it
    It’s a fujifim z2 and a gorgeous one at that, 3 months old so I'd like to salvage it, it was flickering in my bag when it happened, and it wasn't submerged in water just splashed but still...
    I took the battery out and have been leaving it to "dry" all day
    When i put the battery in just threr the charge light was on but nothing else.
    Anybody recommend any tips on how to bring it back to normal
    This happened before to a mobile (It got dropped into a pint) and it came back to life after a few days in the hot press so I'm going to try that

    If anyone has any suggestion's or anything let me know
    Also I’d appreciate if any comment's such "Ah hate that" were left out!
    Thanks


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,555 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    Also I’d appreciate if any comment's such "Ah hate that" were left out!

    as would just about everybody who posts on Ah asking about something. We dissapoint them all.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,122 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    any suggestion's
    Photography Forum may be better!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    Moved from AH. Where have you been letting it dry? I would wrap it up and put in a hot press or something. People with photography use cameras (suprisingly) and know the issues problems such as your own can cause and how to fix them.


  • Posts: 2,862 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I dont need help with photography,
    I suppose you could call it an electronics problem as It could easily be a phone or something like that
    I just need general advice about water damage to thing's like this


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,956 ✭✭✭layke


    Depends what was actually damaged CSG, your prolly going to have to take it to a specialist to replace a component. If you have water damage on any circuit board you may as well bin it. Sometimes it's cheaper to replace the camera.


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  • Posts: 2,862 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    theres light still coming to the screen and its flickering again so I dont think it would be the circuit board!
    I'll let ya's know what happenes when I dry it out further In the bolier press!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,332 ✭✭✭311


    It's mostly only water and power that do the damage ,try and leave it without power for a few days. Don't rap it up though because condensation might build up inside it.
    Anytime I have to replace a waterdamaged PCB ,I try a hairdryer first and sometimes it gets it going .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 21,513 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    Generally the advice in cases like this is to leave it to dry properly somewhere nice and warm and dry, for a good day or two if possible, without switching it on in the meantime. Open up any doors, flaps etc. if possible and remove any battery. It's an awful temptation just to switch it on and see before the time's up, but it's really the best way.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,154 ✭✭✭Oriel


    Get this ****e moved out of this forum!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,424 ✭✭✭440Hz


    sinecurea wrote:
    Get this ****e moved out of this forum!

    :P hehe!

    what kept ya ;)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,819 ✭✭✭rymus


    simple enough solution. If it was turned on when it got wet, it's probably screwed. If in a few days time it doesnt turn on, send it back to Fuji.

    If the other regulars around here can't offer anything constructive (which it's hugely likely) I'll move this to the water damaged electronics forum. You might get a better response there.

    On the other hand, if it was only a splash and it was a fairly new camera you could be alright. Basic sealing in modern cameras will survive the odd splash of water (or Murphys)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,180 ✭✭✭leche solara


    sinecurea wrote:
    Get this ****e moved out of this forum!

    I see the mild mannered tolerant posters still reign in this forum.
    This must be why its so popular with passers-by, and why so many people want to post here!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,424 ✭✭✭440Hz


    rymus wrote:
    On the other hand, if it was only a splash and it was a fairly new camera you could be alright. Basic sealing in modern cameras will survive the odd splash of water (or Murphys)


    you'd think that wouldnt you!! anyone wanna try out the theory themselves??

    people thought the same with phones and toilet bowls... well... maybe thats just the people i know! nice bunch of folk


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,819 ✭✭✭rymus


    theres a bit of a difference between splashing it with water and immersing it in a toilet bowl... both in the quantity and quality of the water :D

    I wouldnt think your average phone has the sealing that some digital cameras would either.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,424 ✭✭✭440Hz


    just a tiny splash of me being sarcasmic there!! about the same size splash that would be safe for a digicam i reckon, so no need to worry there folks!!

    now... anyone got any other worries we can help with!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,424 ✭✭✭440Hz


    oh ... actually... on a serious note. i wouldnt put it in the hot press!! what with all the wet inside and the warm outside and the old condensation on the lcd or even more vital parts of the camera! wet+warm=not a good mix for ye olde electronics!

    (thats why they let me teach elec engies!! cos i is so clever with all these gadget-me-bobs)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 103 ✭✭puss


    I know somebody who did drop their mobile phone down the toilet. She just left it in her room on a desk as all the experts told her it could not be fixed. She forgot about it as she was away for a while. About 2 months later she turned it on and hey bresto its working.
    Its a camera phone.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,819 ✭✭✭rymus


    My ex once dropped her phone down the toilet.. Then she flushed it. But she always was a silly wagon.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,424 ✭✭✭440Hz


    rymus wrote:
    My ex once dropped her phone down the toilet.. Then she flushed it. But she always was a silly wagon.

    hehe!

    mine did too! He didnt flush it though, not that bad.

    and, of course id never call him a silly wagon, im far too nice.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,356 ✭✭✭punchdrunk


    fuji won't touch that with a barge pole,camera's that get wet or any sand inside are class as uneconimical to repair,because even if they replace a part now to get them running again the moisture will cause corrosion so six months down the road the gears in the lense barrel will break

    tis for the bin if ye can't dry it out yourself!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,504 ✭✭✭Roen


    @CSG,
    if you get the oul liquid on a camera or a phone or whatever I'd recommend not switching it on at all until it's fully dried out.
    I know you succumbed to temptation and did switch it on, but hopefully it'll be ok.
    So just do like the people above recommended and open all hinges and flaps and leave to dry before you try putting power through it.
    If it wont work after the drying out just buy a new one. It'll be cheaper in the long run.
    And welcome by the way, don't be shy about posting up pics.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,424 ✭✭✭440Hz


    Roen wrote:
    And welcome by the way, don't be shy about posting up pics.

    {csg, shy, pics} :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,819 ✭✭✭rymus


    Roen, we'd never have seen her in the first place if Ruu didnt move the thread from AH :D


  • Posts: 2,862 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Ok i dried it out, and yes used a hairdryer lighty on it, and it switched and was on for a good while but there was an error message up saying error focussing and it was making the noise it makes when it's taking a photo

    Then it just flickers up the fujifilm logo constantly but still wont function normally, the colour was in the logo too so i suppose thats a plus , I'l bring it back to the shop and pay to get it repaired at this stage!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,424 ✭✭✭440Hz


    Ok i dried it out, and yes used a hairdryer lighty on it,


    YOU WHAT?????????????


    Ok... what you really should have typed there was "Ok, I just killed my camera"

    Sorry but... a hairdryer!! Solution: camera+bin

    I wouldnt bring it back to the shop now. They are going to make a fairly good guess at the torture your poor little camera has been through and that wont be pretty. I doubt they can fix it at this stage anyway.

    New camera tbh.


  • Posts: 2,862 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    nooooooo DONT SAY THAT


    it dried it out it wasn't that wet to begin with, and I only used the light cool setting for a couple of min's anyway


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,154 ✭✭✭Oriel


    Lesson learnt: don't use a camera for sexual relief.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,424 ✭✭✭440Hz


    sinecurea wrote:
    Lesson learnt: don't use a camera for sexual relief.

    ..

    :rolleyes:


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,154 ✭✭✭Oriel


    Bottle of water? ;-)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,273 ✭✭✭Morlar


    Roen wrote:
    @CSG,

    And welcome by the way, don't be shy about posting up pics.

    Just to second that - there was a big brouhaha here a few weeks ago about making people feel welcome and how some people were put off posting because of the nature of the replies they would get so whether the cameras fixed itself or you need a new one dont be put off posting pics either way.


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