Awesome Survivability of USB MP3 Player!!

ALL, I had to let everyone know about this. This morning while I was ironing my work pants I hit a large bump in the pocket. Well, after I pulled the item out it was my MP3 player that the wife had washed & dryed! So immediately I gave her the death look, which she immediately retorted by saying "It's you own dumb-ass fault". Well let me tell you, the DNT Fun200 MP3 player came through without a hitch. In desparation I frantically placed a new battery in that puppy, and it started NO PROBLEM!! So for all of you with spouses that don't empty pockets before doing the laundry, this is the item for you. Just some friendly info.

Peace.

i've herd stories of that. Its cool that it survives. To bad pens cant make it through...

½, thats amazing! bet your glad it wasnt a 90º boil wash.

it worked because there was no power to the mp3 player. i have washed a usb thumbdrive 2 times so far still works. you could hose down a mobo while it was off and as long are you dry it completely it will be fine when you power up. water itself doesnt damage it. its the fact that the water has particles in it that are electrically conductive so when its on its like bridging a ton of connections that shouldnt be bridged. like what happens to a mobo if you dont use stand-offs (one of my friends did that and couldnt figure out why it wouldnt post... hmm..)

I would agree to a point, but the MP3 player did have a "good" battery in it. A couple of months ago they did a "lab" test on thumb drives in MaxPC, and the "washer" test went fine but the dryer test did them all in. that's way I was impressed. Plus, dude I'm in Italy, and the European washers and dryers are far more intense than the US variety. It sold me on the brand, and just wanted to spead the word.

hmmm. i dried mine the second time. and it still works. was only in the dryer a few minutes though.

Yea but woulden't the water evaporate and leave a residue of conductive stuff?

Could you run a computer in distilled water then??

Imaging that? Build you computer, replace all HSFs with just a big passive heatsink, silicone all the cracks and fill with distilled water?

I think water itself is conductive, even at its purest form.

Exactly. Think what would happen if you stuck a plugged in toaster into your bath while your in it.

They do have liquids that you could "dip" you comp. system in and keep it cooled they have some posts on it in the cooling section. Extremely intresting. I want to build one in a little 3x3 ft. freezer.

i heard about pc submerging like that... used for supercomputers... thats crazy


i saw that maxpc article on the tests of the thumbdrives... if u ppl havent read it, u should. its in the january 2004 issue, and is freakin hilarious

i hear the stuff gets into the caps after long term use and everything goes pear shaped

Cool resurrection.

Regarding pure water: As in H2O... its totally non-conductive. In fact if you apply enough amperage to it, you will actually separate the Hydrogen form the Oxygen. This is how we made Oxygen on the sub I was on. As it happens to be, I was an O2 generator tech, and one of the only O2 gen elect tech machinist mates ever. Perhaps its because I knew how to use a meter....

We actually cleaned the Cells with de-ionized water from our sub's distilling plant. De-ionized as in wouldn't conduct electricity. As in hook a meter up, check resistance, and get infinity.

Anyway, the gens could be operated from 350amps all the way up to 1250 amps. at 1250 our machinery room got WARM.

wow what a wonderful little story, so distilled water isn't in its purest form?

The simularities in our stories are strangely familiar.. My wife washed my Nokia cellphone once, and .. Twice! I had a cargo pocket and put it in there.. She said something along the lines of "Its your own dumb ass fault" as well.. Hmmmm.. Ive heard of mind control conspiricies.. but this is just what they were talking about on the "Man Show"..