Why is water so damaging to electrical and electronic goods?
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>Why is water so damaging to electrical and electronic goods?
Electronics rely on running **exactly** the right ranges of voltages over **exactly** the right components.
Impure water has limited conductive ability, so of you pour it over the precisely interconnected components then suddenly everything is connected to everything out of a sudden. Worst case scenario a wire or trace gets hit with a current that it wasn’t designed to bear and simply *evaporates*, damaging the board beyond repay..
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