Barracuda2
Contributor
During a great week of diving on Bloody Bay Wall off Little Cayman, I got a slight leak in my Amphibico VX1000 housing, I think through the mic membrane. This happened to me about 5 yrs. ago and that's where the water came in then The moisture followed the mic cable down to the motherboard. I got a new motherboard from Amphibico; they cleaned up my old board and sent it back, but said they couldn't guarantee that it would work. I am going to put it in to see if it will. Here's my question: Another video-photo guy on the trip told me it I were to dunk the motherboard into isopropol Alchohol, it would take the salt water residue off and maybe make it usable again. Anybody out there know if this is possible or have electrical experience about such matters? When my cam quit during the dive, I thought I ran out of battery; my red alarm moisture light never signaled a problem. When I put a new batt. into the cam, and turned everything on, my green and red lights came on, (that's normal) then blinked off; (not normal) the green ready light should have stayed on. I'm not an electical techy person, so I don't know it the moisture just "fried the board" and I need to get a new one, or will a good cleaning possibly make it usable again. Less than half an ounce of moisture came out of the cam housing when I opened it and tipped it back. The cam was not affected. Any info you could provide for me will be appreciated.