Exactly what the title says. No this is not a troll post. There was some hardstuck water in my Holas which sunlight couldn’t remove.

While I knew that my Holas have a N52 magnet inside them and that this could go horribly wrong because of the Faraday’s cage, I thought just 2-3 seconds of microwaving wouldn’t do anything. Also had this exact thought running in my mind “bad things don’t happen to me” right before putting them inside. I was in semi-denial.

The driver tore off in a somewhat audible boom and now the right one doesn’t work. The cable is fine because I didn’t put it in the microwave, but the washing machine destroyed the mic last month and now it responds in flat noise.

Luckily they were worth only $20 but I’m still a student so it was somewhat major of a loss. In need of advice if recovery is possible.

TL;DR: Don’t microwave your IEMs.

  • AdonaelWintersmith@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    The microwave would not have even done anything about the water, that makes no sense. If you’ve seen any movie/tv show you should know the easiest/cheapest solution for wet electronics is to bury them in a bowl of rice overnight. Silica gel beads even better but not usually on hand in the average household.

  • RealBakashi@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I actually had my Simgot EW200 fucked by soapy water (my dumbass washed the eartip, then didn’t realize the inside was still wet with soapy water)

    So I submerged the entire iem in distilled water for 20 seconds, took it out and shaked it to remove excess water, then placed it in a sealed box with two moisture absorbers (Calcium Chloride).

    Next morning it was fully dried up, and the iem sounded good as new.

  • PegDude@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Truly galaxy brain; US military spends millions on developing rail gun weapons, OP successfully did it for $20

  • Aescorvo@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Hope you’re not an engineering student.

    Sorry for your loss, they sound really dead. 2-3 seconds isn’t enough to do anything with the water but easily enough to blow a circuit or EM coil.

  • Quiet-Fee7728@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I think you missed something here. Do you know if you put a tiny water drop in the microwave and it’ll never heat up? It’s too small compared to the wavelength so it won’t work. So even if the microwave wouldn’t damage your IEM, this method wouldn’t remove the water either.

    A good solution is to put it in a sealed box with anything moist absorbing substance, like silicone gell or calcium oxide. Because the relative humidity of the surrounding air is going low, the water in the IEM would eventually evaporate.

  • Tenki65@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I’ve read somewhere that sticking them in your butt can help reactivate the glue of the driver to the shell. You could try that ?

  • c0ng0pr0@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    1. Please video tape your future experiments.

    2. IEM = hearing aid technology

    Get a hearing aid dehumidifier… borrow one from a senior citizen over night.