Re: [RE-wrenches] Mouse pee in the SW

2013-08-16 Thread Exeltech
C power and for static electricity abatement.  Be wary of any large high-voltage capacitors that may have retained some charge. > > Also .. more than one PCB may be affected. > > > And as always .. do so at your own risk. > > Dan Lepinski > Industry Veteran >

Re: [RE-wrenches] Mouse pee in the SW

2013-08-16 Thread William
oltage capacitors that may have > retained some charge. > > Also .. more than one PCB may be affected. > > > And as always .. do so at your own risk. > > Dan Lepinski > Industry Veteran > > > On Thu, 8/15/13, All

Re: [RE-wrenches] Mouse pee in the SW

2013-08-16 Thread Exeltech
e mouse may be problematic but I'm sure you can come up with alternatives.) Dan On Fri, 8/16/13, jay peltz wrote: Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Mouse pee in the SW To: "RE-wrenches" Date: Friday, August 16, 2013, 10:39 AM Hi Dan

Re: [RE-wrenches] Mouse pee in the SW

2013-08-16 Thread jay peltz
Hi Dan Amazing about what can be done! For those of us not so adventurous, how well would electrical spray Cleaner work? I have used it before to clean a SW that was in a room with a leaky diesel generator. The inside of the inverter was coated in soot, which coupled with sea air, well not suc

Re: [RE-wrenches] Mouse pee in the SW

2013-08-16 Thread RE Ellison
> dry. If it's not, you'll be sealing moisture and/or other contaminants into > the board -- the exact opposite of the goal you're trying to achieve. > > Keep in mind that doing this task properly may help seal the circuit board > and its components.. doing it improperly m

Re: [RE-wrenches] Mouse pee in the SW

2013-08-16 Thread Exeltech
uture mousies .. and leave conformal coating to the manufacturers. Hope this helps. Dan On Fri, 8/16/13, Bill Loesch wrote: Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Mouse pee in the SW To: "RE-wrenches" Date: Friday, August 16, 2013, 2:38 AM

Re: [RE-wrenches] Mouse pee in the SW

2013-08-16 Thread James Jefferson Jarvis
On 8/16/2013 2:38 AM, Bill Loesch wrote: Dan, et al, Once the board has been cleaned sufficiently that the inverter is no longer operating intermittently and your "hope" has been realized, when would you apply a field conformal coating? Would you choose/recommend something better than Krylon cl

Re: [RE-wrenches] Mouse pee in the SW

2013-08-16 Thread Bill Loesch
k with AC power and for static electricity abatement. Be wary of any large high-voltage capacitors that may have retained some charge. Also .. more than one PCB may be affected. And as always .. do so at your own risk. Dan Lepinski Industry Veteran -------- O

Re: [RE-wrenches] Mouse pee in the SW

2013-08-15 Thread Exeltech
high-voltage capacitors that may have retained some charge. Also .. more than one PCB may be affected. And as always .. do so at your own risk. Dan Lepinski Industry Veteran -------- On Thu, 8/15/13, Allan Sindelar wrote: Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Mouse p

Re: [RE-wrenches] Mouse pee in the SW

2013-08-15 Thread Allan Sindelar
William, I don't have a definitive answer, but I doubt it's either display or chipset; more likely in the boards. The chips are EEPROMs that contain programming for the firmware; unless there's a bad socket connection from the pee, they won't be affected. The disp

Re: [RE-wrenches] Mouse pee in the SW

2013-08-15 Thread Eric . Bentsen
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[RE-wrenches] Mouse pee in the SW

2013-08-15 Thread William Miller
Friends: I had a mouse take up residency in an SW inverter (SW4024). It peed on the top circuit board and chewed on one wire, at least that we found. We have had this happen before and solved the problem by cleaning and drying. This time the mouse pee was minimal and cleaned off easily and