Submerged/Garbage?

[hasgas]

We got the truck submerged in the creek today. The servo back plates are off, what do we do now?

 

[dwarfy]

What do you do now........pray!!!
Let it dry out before you attempt to try the power. Any remaining droplets of moisture will short out the pcb's - that is if they are still alive after being drowned :boat: Also, if it was fully submerged as it sounds like, you will have to strip your engine down to dry it out internally.

 

[pipeous]

open things up and take the hair dryer to it

 

[Timmahh]

ya dry it out asap. i suggest takeing the ends off and spraying the insides with contact clearner, its an alcholhol based solution and will have evaporate and protect from the water. once they are all dry, plug them into the rx and try it. check the rx over well aslo, it too could be waterlogged and be damaged maybe. but if everything is in good condition, and works, fill the sevos and rx with Dielectric Grease. water than cant get in as the dielectric grease is already filling the voids. plus its anti conductive.

 

[pablo]

i sank my traxxas revo in a huge puddle, sprayed the whole thing with wd40, and left it in boiler room for a few days it came back to life in the end.

 

[pipeous]

Yup, it's not always as bad as it seems at first as long as you dry it all out good. I live in the lower rainland hehe. I hit puddles all the time. man we race with plastic bags over our radios sometimes

 

[hasgas]

from the sounds of things it looks like he lost the rx only. The servos are responding, we'll get some dielectric grease on em right away. Thanks

 

[hasgas]

Man if it was my sh!t, it ALL would be fried! He lost NOTHING!! the on/off switch, but does that even count?!?! He just headed back home after another bash session, no glitches, no nothing, lucky sonofa.......