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Originally Posted by Junket
The 'put it in a bag of rice' advice is of dubious value. Often it's necessary to disassemble the device for better airflow, clean the circuit board of any water impurities that may deposited there, then put it in a low humidity cabinet with a desiccant like silica gel. And that may still fail if water has gotten inside an enclosed module.
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Quite. It also very much matters what it's got wet with: if it's not distilled water, current flow may cause any deposited impurities to migrate, possibly causing shorts etc if they are conductive and there are enough of them.