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2 Hello my quad crashed and fell in a 2 meters deep swimming pool and remained submerged for 20 seconds at least before i can dive to recover it.
The first thing i done after unplugging lipo was to rinse in distilled water the quad and dried for 3 hours on direct August sunnlight.
Now it is waiting in a big tupperware above(not in contact) a layer of dehydrating antimoisture salts.After the first 24 hours i estracted a couple of tablespoos of water. Today after another 24 hours the new salts are not melted and no more water estracted.
What i have to do now? May i try to connect now or it will smoke? i read that escs will probably burn if powered. Mybe i can save my brand new Swift 2?
Thanks and sorry for my English.
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0 I also drowned my quad last weekend (except it was ~3 minutes in quite dirty water). So far, after cleaning I only connected FC to BF (so far so good). Today will try other parts.
Hope at least some of them survived.
Guess I'll watch this thread before I plug battery
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2 Now i am adding some gun oil to the motor bearing while i am waiting another day in the dehydrating box
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24 Good luck guys, I hope they survive.
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2 I hope the motors and cam at least survive. They are at the second lipo pack....
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2 Great almost everything works fine!!! The anti moisture salts trick workef fine. Just the motors became noisier probably because the lube in the bearings dissolved and some problems exporting blackbox logs , it crash bf configurator every time i try to download log
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2 Never lubed bearings...i will remove the internal facing shields and replace the grease. Thanks
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24 I forgot to ask/mention if you guys have pics or video of the drownings you can ask to have yourselves adorned with the very fetching blue 'scuba' badge you see me proudly wearing under my name! Just post your evidence to the forum
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