My spark went down.....into the water.

[Spark 317]

Unfortunately, salt water gets everywhere and is damaging to electronics, especially when powered up.

Even if you flushed it with fresh water, there may be some salt water that is still in the nooks and crannies still corroding the electronics internally.

If you get lucky and everything seems fine, I'd keep an eye on the Spark as it may fail when not expected.

You can also try the rice bowl trick to remove the moisture but the salt residue will remain and continue to corrode stuff until failure. It may or may not happen?

Good luck.

 

[alekaras]

Unfortunately, salt water gets everywhere and is damaging to electronics, especially when powered up.

Even if you flushed it with fresh water, there may be some salt water that is still in the nooks and crannies still corroding the electronics internally.

If you get lucky and everything seems fine, I'd keep an eye on the Spark as it may fail when not expected.

You can also try the rice bowl trick to remove the moisture but the salt residue will remain and continue to corrode stuff until failure. It may or may not happen?

Good luck.

I was hoping for a different answer, but it looks like it's toast from what you're saying. Off to DJI it goes. Thanks for the quick response!

 

[RaWine]

I prefer to run a fan blowing on it if available. It may work fine, but need to have patience and get it dry. Not sure what everyone else would do, but this is what I did. Mine went in a pond, dirty water. took off battery, rinse rest of spark in clean water, shake out excess water turning spark around, then put it in front of a fan overnight. The longer you have to wait before you start the process, probably the more chance it will get enough damage to not work. Some people have taken spark apart to dry out, but I wasn't comfortable doing that. good luck!