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Liquipel: coating for wireless etc?


Rich Reilly

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http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.6c8b860e4bb2d9c7218699a6c60b430d.cd1&show_article=1

Liquipel was showing off a clear coating a thousand times thinner than a human hair that shields smartphones outside and inside from damaging effects of water.

"Water will just run through the machine," Liquipel president Danny McPhail told AFP as he casually tossed an iPhone into a tub of water and watched it sink. "It actually beads right on top of the circuit board and rolls off."

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" "Wine spills, coffee spills, anything like that you are going to be protected,...I don't want to say a toilet, but that is where 50 percent of smartphone water deaths happen." "

wireless mic's, too... ::)

" Liquipel charges $60 to coat a smartphone, with shipping adding to the cost."

bet they would do wireless TX's, too... :unsure:

or just buy the toiletproof waterproof ones.. ::)

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Looks like there are a couple companies/guys in a garage offering something similar to iPods:

https://underwateraudio.com/

https://underwateraudio.com/

Adds about $100 to the price of an iPod Shuffle, but then claims the iPod is usable while swimming. Interesting idea, but what do I know?

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IIRC SD coated at least some of their boards

I suspect that this process might work out better as an after market option for some of us who want to have this process applied. Maybe some of us will even be able to persuade production to pay for it as an alternative to L&D, but won't hold my breath for that to happen...

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Probably some vapor-deposited polymer process (sorry, I ride bikes with some chemical engineers) that's now available/affordable for small companies.

A quick (and perhaps ill-formed) google search brings up this:

http://www.p2i.com/technology

Would love to hear from a resident engineer or manufacturer if this stuff makes sense for (or is already in use on) location audio equipment.

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A coating on the board makes sense but what about dock connector and the small connectors inside these devices that need to conduct? If you put this coating on an iPhone dock connector - the pins still need to conduct and if there is a drop of water across the wrong pins it will still conduct/short no? I would also assume the internal connectors can't be permanently coated as this would prevent any repair or disassembly.

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