Just spilled soup on the keyboard!!!!

[Origami Cactus]

Logitech G810 

First thing i did was unplugged it, and turned it upside down. Then i removed all the keys, and put those in water.

I .tried to use qtip to clean keyboard but what do i do now? Answer quick!

[Cyberspirit]

I'd take it apart and clean the whole thing. Then, leave it to dry for like a week just to be sure.

If nothing got shorted then, you'll be fine.

[Origami Cactus]

Just now, Cyberspirit said:

I'd take it apart and clean the whole thing. Then, leave it to dry for like a week just to be sure.

If nothing got shorted then, you'll be fine.

for a week? i cant wait that long.... i tried the whole thing right now and i looks fine.  but i will take it completely apart  and will see how wet the logic board is

[WereCatf]

3 minutes ago, Cyberspirit said:

I'd take it apart and clean the whole thing. Then, leave it to dry for like a week just to be sure.

If nothing got shorted then, you'll be fine.

Pretty much this. I spilled half a liter of Coke on my keyboard once and it was all soaked in sugary goo and all, so it was pretty nasty and almost no key would work, they'd just stick because of the sugar. I took the whole thing apart, rinsed everything in hot water -- cold water doesn't work nearly as well for removing food-stuffs -- and then I rinsed the PCBs with isopropyl alcohol to wash any water out, since water is corrosive on the solder-joints -- plastic parts don't care -- and it took about 5 days for everything to dry properly inside the key-switches.

[Cyberspirit]

1 minute ago, Origami Cactus said:

for a week? i cant wait that long.... i tried the whole thing right now and i looks fine.  but i will take it completely apart  and will see how wet the logic board is

You could've just fried the whole thing by plugging it back in.

Just buy the cheapest keyboard you can find and use it until this one is for sure clean and dry.

[WereCatf]

2 minutes ago, Origami Cactus said:

for a week? i cant wait that long....

The key-switches are really hard to get all the water out of and since they're very tiny, enclosed spaces, they take a good while to dry. If you can't be arsed to wait a couple of days, then you need a big dehumidifier to put everything in..

[Origami Cactus]

1 hour ago, Cyberspirit said:

You could've just fried the whole thing by plugging it back in.

Just buy the cheapest keyboard you can find and use it until this one is for sure clean and dry.

How did you know that i just did that?... Duck.

I will still let it dry out but, rip the keyboard...  Should have read that earlier.

 

It worked, but then the lights turned dim and it died.

[desertcomputer]

1 minute ago, Origami Cactus said:

How did you know that i just did that?... Fuck.

I will still let it dry out but, rip the keyboard...  Should have read that earlier.

 

It worked, but then the lights turned dim and it died.

A expensive lesson learnt.

[Origami Cactus]

Even better, when taking it apart i broke the pcb, so no fixing it now. Im screwed

But no traces go through there, so maybe im not? Anyways ive done too much damage, will look at the keyboard in a week.

[Cyberspirit]

3 minutes ago, Origami Cactus said:

Even better, when taking it apart i broke the pcb, so no fixing it now. Im fucked

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Which part is broken?

[TetraSky]

I miss the days when keyboards used those flexible, transparent film PCBs, that you can take apart easily to fix it if you spilled anything.

In your case, with the hard green PCB, you're fucked~ Even more so if you just broke it further.

[Origami Cactus]

21 minutes ago, Cyberspirit said:

Which part is broken?

It is the volume slider thing's pcb, but i looked at it with my fater and it doesnt haev any traces on it, so it is maybe fine.

[Cyberspirit]

Doesn't it have something connecting it to the main PCB or what are those lines there?

Also, even if it's broken you are probably fine. RIP volume control though.

[Origami Cactus]

5 minutes ago, Cyberspirit said:

Doesn't it have something connecting it to the main PCB or what are those lines there?

Also, even if it's broken you are probably fine. RIP volume control though.

The volume control itself seems to be connected via the ribbonn cable, and pcb seems empty, so it may be fine.

But ill leave it drying for 3-4 days and then ill comment if i got it working

[Cyberspirit]

1 minute ago, Origami Cactus said:

The volume control itself seems to be connected via the ribbonn cable, and pcb seems empty, so it may be fine.

But ill leave it drying for 3-4 days and then ill comment if i got it working

Then it was just probably holding it in place. Also, make sure to clean things as @WereCatf suggested.

 

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I took the whole thing apart, rinsed everything in hot water -- cold water doesn't work nearly as well for removing food-stuffs -- and then I rinsed the PCBs with isopropyl alcohol to wash any water out, since water is corrosive on the solder-joints -- plastic parts don't care -- and it took about 5 days for everything to dry properly inside the key-switches