You should be able to submerge any electronic in a pool of distilled water without any effect on the system, as long as the electronics are very clean, and the water is entirely or largely free of contamination of any kind. If I remember correctly, distilled water is dielectric. I believe that they used distilled water as the dielectric fluid for wire EDM back when I was doing tool and die work (like, 20-odd years ago).
I’m not sure how fast you’d get corrosion in distilled water. Would it happen faster if the water was in a near vacuum so that there was very little gas dissolved in it?
I should test that.
(Also, it would be hard to keep a computer case vacuum sealed.)
You should be able to submerge any electronic in a pool of distilled water without any effect on the system, as long as the electronics are very clean, and the water is entirely or largely free of contamination of any kind. If I remember correctly, distilled water is dielectric. I believe that they used distilled water as the dielectric fluid for wire EDM back when I was doing tool and die work (like, 20-odd years ago).
My understanding is that as soon as corrosion starts it would no longer be pure and would quickly short.
I’m not sure how fast you’d get corrosion in distilled water. Would it happen faster if the water was in a near vacuum so that there was very little gas dissolved in it?
I should test that.
(Also, it would be hard to keep a computer case vacuum sealed.)