You'll need to get the circuits/m'boards clean of the residual ions and deposits left over after drying it out else they can cause short circuits or prevent power travelling along where is meant to... (that powder residue that's left over after boiling all water off) usually needs a volatile solvent and a lot of time and patience and cotton wool buds.
My main vehicle has a 18v truck battery which makes life more interesting... it also used to have a leisure battery in it, but that's been removed. The wiring wasn't making me happy let's just put it that way! Laws on vehicles are much more lax here in Australia!
For the moment I'm keeping the old one as the vehicle spare. The new one was delivered yesterday and has halved the time it takes to nebulise. I may be able to change from the very fine particle size to a medium particle size nebuliser as well, which will also speed things up. (The bit everyone thinks of as a nebuliser is actually just a compressor pump, the nebuliser is the part you put the liquid drugs into for inhalation. )
Fortunately it had good quality medical grade distilled water in it so no mineral deposits to worry about and when I opened it because it’s so well sealed by silicone gaskets minimal water evaporation had taken place, that allowed gentle manual drying before the heat 👍
I reassembled it this morning after posting about it as honestly I’d been avoiding finding out the outcome and to my great joy it appears to be working well 💃👏
This is not the first time the heated airer has saved wet electrical items, it seems to be just the right temp for fast evaporation without causing any damage. Two phones, a battery pack that had been left out in heavy rain, a digital watch and an ipad all rescued by the heated airer!
I was glad someone requested I posted a vid of me removing the noise abatement foam a while back * because its a complicated little thing that has to be reassembled in a precise order and after two weeks on the airer I couldn‘t remember how it went back together 🤪😆
*Just under two years ago now Philips announced that anyone using their CPAP machines should cease immediately as the foam they used is carcinogenic and degrading, meaning little pieces of this toxic foam were being forced into your lungs under pressure, plus it’s been giving off VOC’s right from the outset! They replaced my main machine about six months ago but the travel version still no news!
The thing that disgusted me most was they clearly knew about this sometime before they announced it because they’d been working on stockpiling another identical version for a year before. They also said anyone who removed the foam themselves would invalidate the warranty!!
Glad I ignored them, didn’t fancy inhaling toxic foam for a year and half while they tried to replace millions of cpap machines (they estimate 4-6 million machines but Philips are pretending they don’t know how many they've sold).
I also had the symptoms, sore eyes after use, developed a cough and started to have shortness of breath, I thought i was developing asthma.
Removed the foam and it stopped!
