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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: SaltyET on Sun, 05 July 2020, 13:50:24
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I spilled juice on my keyboard, dried it, the keys got sticky so i cleaned them, didnt work, so i tried sleaning them later with hand sanitizer, now some keys seem to not be working, i've tried to reset manuall the keyboard, didn't work, and i don't know what to do. It is a Corsair keyboard
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Looks like you've water damaged the PCB. The most pain-free way would be to just replace the PCB. However, since it is a Corsair keyboard, it might just be easier to replace the whole thing for you.
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FeelsBadMan
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you could also try to clean it, dry it very well and wait a few days to make sure any water you missed evaporated and then try again, but if you left it powered after water got on it has chances of being dead.
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I spilled juice on my keyboard, dried it, the keys got sticky so i cleaned them, didnt work, so i tried sleaning them later with hand sanitizer, now some keys seem to not be working, i've tried to reset manuall the keyboard, didn't work, and i don't know what to do. It is a Corsair keyboard
How did you try cleaning them? You wiped them down with a rag, or you dunked it into water and flushed it like crazy for a while?
Sugar and acids from juice are going to be a nasty problem for electronics, and unless you got all the residues out, I would not hold out much hope for the board by now.
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91% Isopropyl alcohol is your friend, if the board is even recoverable at this point. It is hard enough to meaningfully clean under the plate of the usual mechanical keyboard, corsair's exposed aluminum plate boards like the K65 or K70 leave you even less access and visibility in there than most others.
You could try flushing the whole board with some Isopropyl and working any switches that may feel sticky while you're at it. It is usually pretty great at breaking down gunk, and evaporates a lot more quickly than most other cleaners, although it may still take many hours if it is in a tiny enclosed space. I usually wait at least 24 hours or more, even with 91% myself. Some tricks I like to help facilitate faster evaporation are to leave the board somewhere with a lot of ventilation, like under a fan, and maybe prop it vertically on one side so that instead of pooling, most excess liquid should run out from between the plate and PCB. Reversing it in a few hours may help to disperse remaining pockets of isoproypl so that it can evaporate more quickly.
If that doesn't work, you can try to desolder every single switch so you can get direct access to the PCB for targeted cleaning, or if you lack the patience, concern, tools and/or skills, and are otherwise just going to trash the board, it couldn't hurt to try putting it through the dishwasher and letting it dry a few days and/or flushing it with isopropyl again.
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I guess you may just have to replace your PCB... Thankfully they are not too expensive but the desoldering will be a pain (assuming it is not hot swap).
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draw a diagram of the height/ impact angle / and spread-extent of the Juice Incident.
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Corsair keyboard? Bin it.
(...and that's my 1k post :D)
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Corsair keyboard? Bin it.
(...and that's my 1k post :D)
If that ends up being your conclusion, and it is one of their older boards with the exposed plate, send it to me instead. ;)
Ironically, I'm actually typing this from a heavily-modified K65.