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Can I bath my Steelseries 6gv2?

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Peski Denmark51 Posts November 28 2012 00:28 GMT #1 Hey TL can I bath my 6gv2? and how do I do it? If you bath the keyboard you will put it completly under water. Does anyone have experience on it?

Schneeflocke Canada89 Posts November 28 2012 00:41 GMT #2 Make sure to record and put on youtube.

Peski Denmark51 Posts November 28 2012 00:45 GMT #3 On November 28 2012 09:41 Saria wrote: Make sure to record and put on youtube. It's normal to do, I have heard. I searched google and many people have had succes!+-

PXEnTei United States209 Posts November 28 2012 00:55 GMT #4 Are u serous??? Unless u have a water proff key board, everything will break I hope u are trolling

GohgamX Canada1096 Posts November 28 2012 01:06 GMT #5 Do it! let me know how it goes.... I hear salt water works best

Kevin_Sorbo Canada3217 Posts November 28 2012 01:11 GMT #6 did it once with a wireless mac kb. some stoopid poured wine into it. worked fine. even added some dishwashing soap to give it a nice smell. just make sure you give it plenty of time to dry. ( also did it with game console controlers whom had beer and it was fine as well) cant tell for your fancy kb though as far as i can tell he aint trollin its true its true!

theBALLS Singapore2935 Posts November 28 2012 01:20 GMT #7 I think its possible. Just hairdryer it after an let it dry for a few days

zelevin United States252 Posts November 28 2012 01:22 GMT #8 LOL This is a great troll.

Belial88 United States5217 Posts November 28 2012 01:26 GMT #9 It's fine to put electronics in water, as long as they aren't plugged in and are dry when you do eventually plug them back in. The problem is that water doesn't dry out in certain nooks and crannies for a very long time. Also, many of the capacitors and power modules will store electricity after you've disconnected them from power, so you can't just straight unplug and dunk (i'm sure you've heard about unplugged old TV's killing people with blasts of stored electric power). You can wash a mechanical keyboard, just take off all the keys and put them in their own bowl or something, take apart the keyboard as much you can. Then rinse with isoproply alcohol. It might even be better to only rinse it in a solvent like isopropyl alcohol, which evaporates very quickly, so any possible risk that water carries is significantly minimized. The OP has clearly done a search. People like zelevin and THORLORD are just uninformed and giving bad responses out their ass. This isn't a great forum to ask this question in, unfortunately. Your gonna have to go to a mech keyboard forum or at least computer forum for this kind of stuff. I haven't done this myself so I don't know. Otherwise this site is as good as tomshardware for tech questions (lots of posters/readers, quick responses, a few knowledgeable people, otherwise bad advice, inexperienced, and regurgitated responses from bad reviews instead of personal experience).

m1rk3 Canada412 Posts November 28 2012 01:31 GMT #10 I don't have experience bathing a 6gv2, but I have bathed my Blackwidow. I'm pretty sure it's the same process though: 1) Disconnect keyboard 2) Wait a couple of hours to allow the keyboard to discharge any electricity that it has stored 3) Dunk away. 4) Let it hang dry for a week. 5) Plug in and enjoy.

aviator116 United States820 Posts November 28 2012 01:47 GMT #11 Yes, you can. Just be very careful about making sure ALL parts of your board are dried out before you re-use it.

reikai United States359 Posts November 28 2012 01:49 GMT #12 -deleted-

AndyGB4 Canada156 Posts November 28 2012 01:51 GMT #13 Ha, I would have never thought this was even possible. Very interesting, if ever my new mech keyboard gets something spilled on it i guess.

TehWyLD Canada18 Posts November 28 2012 02:17 GMT #14 I poured most of a beer into my 7G then sprayed it down in the shower. After letting it dry with a fan blowing on it on high for about 8 hours it was good to. GL to u sir.

Falling Canada11340 Posts November 28 2012 03:28 GMT #15 Simple Q&A would suffice.

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