I just got this real nice used PDA from ebay and I keep smelling this
weird odor I cannot discribe on it... Would anyone know how I could get
rid of the smell without damaging the pda?

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I just got this real nice used PDA from ebay and I keep smelling this
weird odor I cannot discribe on it... Would anyone know how I could get
rid of the smell without damaging the pda?


Assuming the smell is from leaking electrolyte, from soon to be deceased
electrolytic and consequential track corrosion , it won't be working much
longer.

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Could be a faulty battery.
Li-Ion batteries that fail emit some strange smell, and shorty after
that, explode and set fire to whatever is close.

Take it apart and sniff-trace where the smell comes from.

Simoc wrote in message
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Take it apart and sniff-trace where the smell comes from.


If its leaking electrolyte its doing damage whether the unit is switched on
or off.

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Diverse Devices, Southampton, England
electronic hints and repair briefs , schematics/manuals list on
http://home.graffiti.net/diverse:graffiti.net/

Yes. Electrolyte all over the board = Corrosion of the traces




"N Cook" wrote in message
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Simoc wrote in message
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Take it apart and sniff-trace where the smell comes from.


If its leaking electrolyte its doing damage whether the unit is switched
on
or off.

--
Diverse Devices, Southampton, England
electronic hints and repair briefs , schematics/manuals list on
http://home.graffiti.net/diverse:graffiti.net/

Michael Kennedy wrote:
Yes. Electrolyte all over the board = Corrosion of the traces




In which case it smells very much like fish.

"James Sweet" wrote in message
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Michael Kennedy wrote:
Yes. Electrolyte all over the board = Corrosion of the traces




In which case it smells very much like fish.

Maybe it was shoplifted.

I was planning on buying a new battery I'm hoping that is the case if
not I'm going to throw up every time I smell this foul odor.

It's a Sony Clie Peg - T615C Sliver I read on the web this PDA was
discontinued beacuse it kept on breaking.

If it was shoplifted why would it smell so bad?

T Shadow wrote:
"James Sweet" wrote in message
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Michael Kennedy wrote:
Yes. Electrolyte all over the board = Corrosion of the traces




In which case it smells very much like fish.

Maybe it was shoplifted.

BTW it doesn't smell like fish and the battery isn't leaking, it's in
good shape just smells real bad.
davidbowiefan wrote:
I was planning on buying a new battery I'm hoping that is the case if
not I'm going to throw up every time I smell this foul odor.

It's a Sony Clie Peg - T615C Sliver I read on the web this PDA was
discontinued beacuse it kept on breaking.

If it was shoplifted why would it smell so bad?

T Shadow wrote:
"James Sweet" wrote in message
news:KdvGg.5311$hP6.3054@trnddc04...
Michael Kennedy wrote:
Yes. Electrolyte all over the board = Corrosion of the traces




In which case it smells very much like fish.

Maybe it was shoplifted.

davidbowiefan wrote:
BTW it doesn't smell like fish and the battery isn't leaking, it's in
good shape just smells real bad.
davidbowiefan wrote:

I was planning on buying a new battery I'm hoping that is the case if
not I'm going to throw up every time I smell this foul odor.

It's a Sony Clie Peg - T615C Sliver I read on the web this PDA was
discontinued beacuse it kept on breaking.

If it was shoplifted why would it smell so bad?

T Shadow wrote:

"James Sweet" wrote in message
news:KdvGg.5311$hP6.3054@trnddc04...

Michael Kennedy wrote:

Yes. Electrolyte all over the board = Corrosion of the traces




In which case it smells very much like fish.

Maybe it was shoplifted.


does it smell of tobacco?

On 22 Aug 2006 16:09:30 -0700, "davidbowiefan"
wrote:

BTW it doesn't smell like fish and the battery isn't leaking, it's in
good shape just smells real bad.

A friend of mine "lost" a PDA after his cat mistook it for the
litterbox.

Let me guess, you bought at a police auction - it was found on a corpse?

davidbowiefan wrote:

BTW it doesn't smell like fish and the battery isn't leaking, it's in
good shape just smells real bad.
davidbowiefan wrote:


I was planning on buying a new battery I'm hoping that is the case if
not I'm going to throw up every time I smell this foul odor.

It's a Sony Clie Peg - T615C Sliver I read on the web this PDA was
discontinued beacuse it kept on breaking.

If it was shoplifted why would it smell so bad?

T Shadow wrote:


"James Sweet" wrote in message
news:KdvGg.5311$hP6.3054@trnddc04...


Michael Kennedy wrote:


Yes. Electrolyte all over the board = Corrosion of the traces





In which case it smells very much like fish.


Maybe it was shoplifted.






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Joe Leikhim K4SAT
"The RFI-EMI-GUY"©

"Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason."

"Follow The Money" ;-P

**THE-RFI-EMI-GUY** wrote:
Let me guess, you bought at a police auction - it was found on a corpse?


Damn...I had that exact thought and was going to post it when I finished
the reading the thread.

jak

wrote in message
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I just got this real nice used PDA from ebay and I keep smelling this
weird odor I cannot discribe on it... Would anyone know how I could get
rid of the smell without damaging the pda?

Does it smell like dog urine?

"jakdedert" wrote in message
...
**THE-RFI-EMI-GUY** wrote:
Let me guess, you bought at a police auction - it was found on a corpse?


Damn...I had that exact thought and was going to post it when I finished
the reading the thread.

jak

That'd be way worse than "fish". Doubt a PDA would have part-out value like
a Corvette.

jakdedert wrote:
**THE-RFI-EMI-GUY** wrote:
Let me guess, you bought at a police auction - it was found on a corpse?


Damn...I had that exact thought and was going to post it when I finished
the reading the thread.

jak

LOL no, and no I didn't buy it from a police auction I thought I said
in my first post I bought it off ebay.

I can't really think up what it smells like to put it in words. I guess
you could say it smells like puke, but then when I got it I was sorta
sick at the time.

err... I wouldn't know what dog urine smells like I ussually don't
smell those type of things.


Homer J Simpson wrote:
wrote in message
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I just got this real nice used PDA from ebay and I keep smelling this
weird odor I cannot discribe on it... Would anyone know how I could get
rid of the smell without damaging the pda?

Does it smell like dog urine?

No.

Mark Fortune wrote:
davidbowiefan wrote:
BTW it doesn't smell like fish and the battery isn't leaking, it's in
good shape just smells real bad.
davidbowiefan wrote:

I was planning on buying a new battery I'm hoping that is the case if
not I'm going to throw up every time I smell this foul odor.

It's a Sony Clie Peg - T615C Sliver I read on the web this PDA was
discontinued beacuse it kept on breaking.

If it was shoplifted why would it smell so bad?

T Shadow wrote:

"James Sweet" wrote in message
news:KdvGg.5311$hP6.3054@trnddc04...

Michael Kennedy wrote:

Yes. Electrolyte all over the board = Corrosion of the traces




In which case it smells very much like fish.

Maybe it was shoplifted.


does it smell of tobacco?

"davidbowiefan" wrote in message
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LOL no, and no I didn't buy it from a police auction I thought I said
in my first post I bought it off ebay.

I can't really think up what it smells like to put it in words. I guess
you could say it smells like puke, but then when I got it I was sorta
sick at the time.

If so burning plastic?

"davidbowiefan" wrote in message
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err... I wouldn't know what dog urine smells like I ussually don't
smell those type of things.

You haven't lived much then.

Homer J Simpson wrote:
"davidbowiefan" wrote in message
oups.com...


LOL no, and no I didn't buy it from a police auction I thought I said
in my first post I bought it off ebay.

I can't really think up what it smells like to put it in words. I guess
you could say it smells like puke, but then when I got it I was sorta
sick at the time.


If so burning plastic?






maybe it is where she was hiding it when she shoplifted it