I won the lottery …. Sort of

A few years ago I bought an Aims Sine Wave Inverter for a couple of hundred.  Maybe 299.   Short story .. through my stupidity, I managed to drown it in water. I did have some sense.  I put it away where I would not be tempted to use it. I found it today and hooked it up.   It works perfectly.  I looked up the price on Amazon.  It is now well over $800.00.  

John F Dean wrote:A few years ago I bought an Aims Sine Wave Inverter for a couple of hundred.  Maybe 299.   Short story .. through my stupidity, I managed to drown it in water. I did have some sense.  I put it away where I would not be tempted to use it. I found it today and hooked it up.   It works perfectly.  I looked up the price on Amazon.  It is now well over $800.00.  

congratulation on avoiding the blue smoke of death...

No kidding.  I am still amazed!  I had set in in a plastic tub in a storage shed. Of course, I put the tub under the one place where the roof leaked. Then it rained for three days.

Many years ago was between 'real' jobs and briefly a contract cleaner at a place that made computer parts. Shocked to see someone washing dusty returned items so they could be refurbished. Yes, in a sink with water! He explained that as long as they are thoroughly dry before being powered up that clean water does no harm to most electronics. Salt water is a different story...

Occasionally will wash my keyboard when it gets too gross to look at. Overnight standing on end followed by a few hours in the sun is enough.

Hubby always reminds me that if something that has a battery in it gets wet, pull the battery immediately and you might get lucky! It's worked a few times.

Now too many things have batteries you can't get to!