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Originally Posted by tdlrali
What a bad time to have something like that happen!
Your electronics should be fine as long as they are dry when you use them the next time. I'd be more worried about rusting of metal parts, especially motors...
I hope everything turns out good for you guys, best of luck!
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Felix,
It pains me to jump in on this one but there are a lot of water damage stories in electronics. Pure, distilled water can be relied on to not cause damage to components but any other water, especially water that has been in an iron pipe for any length of time, will be a gift that keeps on giving. Water does not conduct electricity it is the contaminents that conduct and cause harm.
Sorry guys.
X,
Alchohol does not eat traces, but in a keyboard there are other things that make it bad. The water will be pulled between electrical layers by capillary action. Many keyboards use a rubber and carbon pad to connect two pads on the keyboard plane. (rows and columns) Spilling water, not only conducts electric current into the sensitive keyboard encoder, it also changes the electrical property of the carbon. If the keyboard doesn't die completely, you might find that a row or column will cease working. (i.e. the 2,w,s,x, and alt key might not work but everything else will.