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Landed in a puddle!
#1
Hi folks.  It a lovely sunny day here so I decided to go for a lunchtime fly, ended up landing in what must be the only puddle for miles around.

I currently have the quad (QAV210) sitting in a carrier bag full of Tesco's long grain rice.  What's my best bet now, leave it in rice?  How long for?  Will I be able to get it to a position where I can fly tomorrow lunchtime?  What's the success rate for drying out wet quads?  So many questions!!

I also plan to douse it in Corrosion X as soon as it comes out of the bag of rice.

Thanks in advance for any help.
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#2
Take them apart , if esc have heat shrink remove that... If fpv camera has a case you also want to remove the back plate too

Leave in rice for at least 48 hours I would say?
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#3
(19-Apr-2016, 04:56 PM)Oscar Wrote: Take them apart , if esc have heat shrink remove that... If fpv camera has a case you also want to remove the back plate too

Leave in rice for at least 48 hours I would say?
Thanks Oscar, I'll follow all that and hope for the best.  Come flying they said, it'll be fun they said ....tw*ts! Smile
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#4
(19-Apr-2016, 04:59 PM)JCH Wrote: Thanks Oscar, I'll follow all that and hope for the best.  Come flying they said, it'll be fun they said ....tw*ts! Smile

They should have said "Oh, and stay out of that puddle over there...."   Wink
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#5
I say add some nutmeg, pepper, curry powder, cinnamon, 4 cups of water and cook for 25 minutes. Let sit for 5, then enjoy quadrice with your favorite meat Smile
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#6
Nutmeg?! Are you mad? That'll never go.
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#7
One of our guys had a fully submerged quad recently.

Left it in a hot cupboard for 5 or 6 days and it fired up first time no problems!

All hope is not lost!
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#8
(19-Apr-2016, 07:24 PM)Bandook Wrote: I say add some nutmeg, pepper, curry powder, cinnamon, 4 cups of water and cook for 25 minutes. Let sit for 5, then enjoy quadrice with your favorite meat Smile

LMAO Big Grin
it will probably smell silicon haha !
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#9
(19-Apr-2016, 09:58 PM)DaJudge Wrote: One of our guys had a fully submerged quad recently.

Left it in a hot cupboard for 5 or 6 days and it fired up first time no problems!

All hope is not lost!

Encouraging!  It's sitting in a backing tray full of rice in a south facing window at the moment, I'll give it another day like that then blat it with Corrosion X and hope for the best!  I've heard of people dragging them out of lakes and drenching them with Corrosion X and that's been enough.

It's a shame, I was just at the stage where I was starting to make progress, I haven't been flying long.
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#10
(20-Apr-2016, 08:40 AM)JCH Wrote: It's a shame, I was just at the stage where I was starting to make progress, I haven't been flying long.

No Shame there at all, I call it progress, You have moved up a level from the pissy little ninja branches to hard core water landings Big Grin . Just to let you know though, it does not stop there...... Quads are drawn to the only pile of steaming dung within 100 meteres of where you fly, also attracted to hard to rescue places, + mud, sand and every other known hazard they can see.  Just when you think you have mastered your quad it will come back and show you who is boss.
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#11
Very true Biggles, the law of the sod!

Anyway, you'll all be extremely relieved to know that I took it for a test flight last night and it's fine. I followed all the advice given here apart from the advice that involved waiting, stripped it down, took it out of the rice after a day and left it for another day in the sunlight. Blatted it all with Corrosion X, fired it up and tested everything - all's good!

Thanks for the replies folks.

Oh and Oscar, you're the guy with the blog? If so between yourself and Painless360 you've both really helped me understand this hobby and get in the air. Thanks for sharing the knowledge, it's really appreciated.
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#12
This past winter my SYMA X5SW spent 5 days in cold wet weather until I could figure out how to get it down from about 40 feet (12.2 meters) up in a maple tree. I took it completely apart, including its small FPV camera, and let it dry in the house overnight next afternoon it looked dry so I hooked up a battery and it worked fine so I put it back together. Inside the house the relative humidity is extremely low in winter here. I live about 25 miles south of the Canadian Border. Anyway I didn't use any chemicals on it just air dry.
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