What to do!!!!!!
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That happened to my tek unit when I first purchased it a few weeks ago. I left the light on my floor facing down to let any water that could possibly be in it drip out. It worked fine and continues to work fine.
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- FREEPORT,LONG ISLAND
I would try to take it apart before it rust, blow off as much as you can and maybe wipe with fresh water or something that wont kill your tank if you do it again
If they weren't on when they fell in they should be fine. I would rinse them off with distilled water so you don't get any salt left on it and so you won't have any salt/mineral deposits on the circuits which you may get if you use regular tap water. Avoiding deposits on circuits will guarantee you not getting a short when you turn it back on. After rinsing in distilled water you can put it in a box of rice to fully dry
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Use RODI water and give it a good long soak and then use a hair dryer to evaporate the water. No gaurantee but this is the move of last resort. Salt water is real nasty for circuitry. I recently splashed my vortech controller when I reached into my sump. It tripped my GFCI and then the vortech wouldn't work even after drying out. I took out the circuit board and soaked it overnight in RODI water. Voila, it started working again. Good luck.
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- Long Island, 11769
Hitting it with a hair dryer could cause further circuit damage. Don't try to turn it on for a few days to ensure that it's dry, you don't want to short out the circuits. Put it face down in a bowl/box of uncooked rice for at least a day (the longer the better), it will draw out the moisture. This has worked for me with both a phone and an iPod.
Edit: didn't realize that Fortunato already suggested the rice, but it really does work.Your corals will be okay for up to three days without light (they will be stressed, but they should generally be okay.) I left my lights off for periods of three days every so often this past summer to reduce the heat from my MHs, didn't lose a single coral (even sps).
Edit: didn't realize that Fortunato already suggested the rice, but it really does work.Your corals will be okay for up to three days without light (they will be stressed, but they should generally be okay.) I left my lights off for periods of three days every so often this past summer to reduce the heat from my MHs, didn't lose a single coral (even sps).
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put it in uncook rice that way it will suck the moisture out of it ... well after you rinse it with fresh water .... then remove the rice pieces before you turn it on ..... thats waht we do for the wet cell phones ........ hope it helps you ...
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- Long Island, 11769
The best way to do it is to put a really thick layer if rice down in the box or bowl first, put your LEDs on top, then put more rice around the fixture. White rice is really cheap, so get a lot of it. Depending how much water the rice pulls out, you may have to change it. Make sure you have the fixture face down so that you can minimize the water that's drawn through the circuity. Good luck.\
BTW, have you tried turning it on since it fell in? If you haven't, wait until you do the rice thing. If there's still moisture in the unit and you turn it on, there's a good chance you'll short it out. If you have tried to turn it on, just don't do it again, there's still a chance that you can salvage it. (And yes, everyone around you will think you are nuts, but 10lbs of rice costs WAY less than a new fixture, lol.)
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