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The Keyboard Lives!
I accidentally spilled some water on the keyboard the other day, and so out of an abundance of caution, took off all the keycaps and let it sit upside down to dry for 48 hours to be safe.
It was actually hard to tell how much water could have gotten to the PCB since there was no easy way to unscrew the case without having to mess up the glue on the rubber feet I think, but it didn't look like there was much to begin with, only some small droplets near the arrow and shift keys, I could only see some water just where the the Shift Key stabilizer holes were. Funny thing was I was thinking of taking off the keycaps recently to inspect how dirty it may be between the keys, but besides one random cat hair, it was actually pretty spotless, to my delight.
I'm just really happy it seems to be working okay, since I did unplug it as soon as I realized where the water spilled. Some sources online were saying that some mechanical keyboards can even survive a full submersion under water if you spilled something like coffee or soda on it, but you'd have to use distilled water and wait a week to dry for it to be okay?? That kind of surprised me, but I suppose it makes sense that it wouldn't be harmed as long as it was completely dry afterwards and no residue left behind might cause a short circuit.
Took the time to let the keyboard rest to just take a day from the computer, hopefully I didn't miss much since I was just on a roll to replying to a bunch of people at once too, then I had to drop off the face of the earth for a day.
It was actually hard to tell how much water could have gotten to the PCB since there was no easy way to unscrew the case without having to mess up the glue on the rubber feet I think, but it didn't look like there was much to begin with, only some small droplets near the arrow and shift keys, I could only see some water just where the the Shift Key stabilizer holes were. Funny thing was I was thinking of taking off the keycaps recently to inspect how dirty it may be between the keys, but besides one random cat hair, it was actually pretty spotless, to my delight.
I'm just really happy it seems to be working okay, since I did unplug it as soon as I realized where the water spilled. Some sources online were saying that some mechanical keyboards can even survive a full submersion under water if you spilled something like coffee or soda on it, but you'd have to use distilled water and wait a week to dry for it to be okay?? That kind of surprised me, but I suppose it makes sense that it wouldn't be harmed as long as it was completely dry afterwards and no residue left behind might cause a short circuit.
Took the time to let the keyboard rest to just take a day from the computer, hopefully I didn't miss much since I was just on a roll to replying to a bunch of people at once too, then I had to drop off the face of the earth for a day.