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Old 04-13-2015, 05:04 PM   #11
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Photos of another salt water submerged Segway, batteries was removed soon after water damage (it did meltdown and spurt out black smoke without causing fire) but sadly the Segway was still a write off.









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Photos of another salt water submerged Segway,
Were both of those salt water?
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Is salt water more conductive?

I can imagine that it will cause more corrosion in a shorter time, but does it allow for a greater short than fresh water in similar situations?
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Is salt water more conductive?

I can imagine that it will cause more corrosion in a shorter time, but does it allow for a greater short than fresh water in similar situations?
Not commenting about "similar situations".

Yes, salt water is more conductive. And distilled, ultra-pure water is (for practical purposes) totally non-conductive.
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The soaking one we received was an X2 and the damage caused by owner's driver (cleans) the Segway. The driver deliver his boss's Segway to us in a SUV and didn't tell us the truth. He didn't even mention it was water damage, we have different SOP regarding moisture damaged unit.
We only realized it's water damage when we lay down the Segway (smells burnt) and saw the black water dripping out, we suspect the driver wash the Segway under a running hose or water blaster. He was very lucky, as if this event happened while he was driving on motorway, we might never received the Segway nor speaking to the driver in person.


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I can almost guarantee it's water submerged damage causing the thermal runaway.
As I had seen 3 cases so far with identical damage.
Will provide photo upon request, looks pretty similar to rwoynaro's.


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Is salt water more conductive?

I can imagine that it will cause more corrosion in a shorter time, but does it allow for a greater short than fresh water in similar situations?
Salt water is definitely more conductive. In fact, pure water is not very conductive at all and has been used to cool electronics completely submerged in it.

Ultra-pure water has a conductivity of 0.055 µS/cm or a resistivity of 18.18 mΩ. Salt water has a conductivity of 4.78 S/m or resistance of only 0.2 ohms.
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