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billybobsky
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Join Date: May 2004
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2008-12-30, 02:04

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Originally Posted by tomoe View Post
Sorry to hear about the controller, hopefully it wasn't a dualshock.

IIRC regarding the corrision, it's the phosphoric acid and not the sugar that gives Coke its corrosiveness.
Not exactly... While it isn't the sugar, even tap water can corrode electronics due to accelerated rusting in the presence of a conducting liquid (water (not pure)) and electricity. Acid will accelerate the process, but not enough to matter in the case of electronics.

I have upended a coke onto my laptop and was quick enough to get the battery out/unplug that nothing happened immediately -- waiting a week was sufficient time to plug it back in and it worked fine... Now, it appears that the coke may have torched a single resistor on the motherboard, but the laptop has been completely usable for the almost three years since the unfortunate soda incident so who cares what theoretic functionality I lost?
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