Texasguy
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Fresh or salt? Does it kill the computer or just the battery?
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On a shearwater?We have resurrected a flooded dive computer battery compartment from salt water by flushing the compartment with fresh water (actually a bit of a soak) then carefully and thoroughly cleaning the compartment and contacts. After drying we inserted a new battery and it was good to go. So just compartment was affected.
If you've got a lithium battery in the computer when it floods, you're probably going to be having a bad day.One of the problems with any battery+saltwater flood is it often initiates electrolysis that seriously corrodes and eats up the electrodes. That's in addition to whatever other damage it makes.