Yeah just mentioned because I thought I had coated 3 of my birds good and remembered that I had a uv light and checked and I had seen I missed a couple spots,but without uv light it looked completely coated,thanks for all that you do bro...truly🙏
Conformal coatings don’t actually waterproof electronics. What they do is prevent corrosion of the circuit board from any moisture present. To waterproof you need to completely encapsulate in some kind of epoxy. This is from the mg chemicals website; “Waterproofing electronic circuits requires the application of an unbroken conformal coating that is free from any voids and has a watertight seal around the edges. Some believe this is the actual function of a conformal coating, but this is simply incorrect. Rather, a conformal coating acts as a semi-permeable membrane through which water can pass by osmosis. It protects the circuit from the harshest effects of long-term moisture exposure, such as the corrosion of copper traces, but in order to truly waterproof a PCB, the circuit must be fully encapsulated in epoxy, polyurethane or a silicone resin.”
That’s all well and good but what about the ports how would you waterproof them? I would like the fc to be completely waterproof and still be able to use the usb ports?
The ports thing is a misnomer. It's a pain in the ass to rub the pins off but it's doable even easier if you reflow the joint. Protect those fetz! I love how most quad guys (not you as I don't know you) have no idea what a fet is or how an esc works in conjunction with all the different parts. Most can't even solder or use a multimeter. I've watched mod videos that were an absolute joke and an 800 dollar piece of bleeding edge tech were bricked because they never bothered to practice soldering or even learn what a fet actually is.
do they come in high temp versions? i want to put liquid metal on the cpu and gpu of my laptop. i want to coat around the dies just in case the liquid metal spills over after applying the heatsink
I have landed a couple times deep in snow without conformal coating and all I'm saying is after rinsing it with warm water and letting it dry in a warm place everything has worked just fine. Just don't ever plug it back in when it's wet, have got a prop to spin pretty fast for no reason in my room and it made a mess.
Exactly. And I know your comment is old but for anyone that comes across this video on Google like I did: Electronics are only damaged by moisture in 2 ways. The first is getting wet while powered, this causes shorts to occur and can damage components. At the very least it usually causes the device to misbehave until the shorts are removed. If nothing crazy shorts (i.e. shorting a 12V supply to a data pin) the device might still function once dry. When a device is unpowered (which is not necessarily the same as turned off), liquid will not typically ruin it right away -- that's why if your phone or other device gets wet most sites/people recommend you immediately power it off. The other way moisture can cause damage is corrosion. Liquid can destroy something even if it's powered off by corroding it. That's why you can say, spill soda/water/etc on something, you wait a bit, turn it on, and it still works, but a few days to weeks later, it suddenly stops working. That's because though there was no short preventing it from working, but the liquid corroded something during that time to the point where it can no longer function. Again, I know you probably know this, just putting it out there for anyone coming across this video/comment. :)
Thanks. I am worried if I don't coat the boot button it will cause problems when getting wet? Or if I coat the button it will flow under it and destroy the function? What do you say?
I say you are correct! I've just finished coating CB radios and i had huge issues with PTT press to talk and other buttons. I had to fart around to get the stuff off using another product and it wasn't fun. However liquid glue is less viscous and very easily removed. U could drop a dab over it to remove later. As this button has to be pressed down to make contact its a relatively unknown quantity whether water would cause an electrical connection. Personally I'd certainly not coat the boot button as it's the other more exposed components that are the issue. Others have mentioned not to coat the gyro but im not certain of the validity of this. If you land in water let it dry before u fly.
can you clean your FC and ESC with isopropyl alcohol after using this silicone conformal coating? or will the isopropyl dissolve away the silicone coating
I used it on a AIO whoop board and now Beta says I don't have a Gyro. Won't arm cause no Gyro and RPM filtering. 🤦♀So I guess only thing to do is try and remove it. I don't understand what happened but I did see that it happened to others on the web.
You are correct. This is just extra protection but certainly not perfect. I believe you would need to use special waterproof connections and coat the entire thing in some type of epoxy. There is a more detailed explanation further up in the comments.
Apparently drone motors already have a waterproof coating on the wires. Just make sure to rinse with distilled water and dry well after taking a dunk to avoid corrosion
@brettwilson I work for a coating house and we wear gloves and live, eat, die, breathe ESD standards by wearing wrist straps/foot straps for grounding lol cosmetically companies don't like fingerprints 😑 but oils and other foreign debris from your hands can definitely cause issues down the road with conformal coating whether it be AR, UR, parylene, silicone, etc... 👍
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Sweet tips🤘You can use a uv light with that modified silicone conformal,2 see if you missed any spots:)
Yupp I should have metioned that Dayum lol Thank You Brother
Yeah just mentioned because I thought I had coated 3 of my birds good and remembered that I had a uv light and checked and I had seen I missed a couple spots,but without uv light it looked completely coated,thanks for all that you do bro...truly🙏
with the brush that's on the bottle, you're really gonna need it. that thing looks astoundingly crappy. lol
How long does the coating last for?
Thanks for the info 👍🏻
Conformal coatings don’t actually waterproof electronics. What they do is prevent corrosion of the circuit board from any moisture present. To waterproof you need to completely encapsulate in some kind of epoxy. This is from the mg chemicals website;
“Waterproofing electronic circuits requires the application of an unbroken conformal coating that is free from any voids and has a watertight seal around the edges. Some believe this is the actual function of a conformal coating, but this is simply incorrect. Rather, a conformal coating acts as a semi-permeable membrane through which water can pass by osmosis. It protects the circuit from the harshest effects of long-term moisture exposure, such as the corrosion of copper traces, but in order to truly waterproof a PCB, the circuit must be fully encapsulated in epoxy, polyurethane or a silicone resin.”
The moment you said “like painting nails” I knew I’d be fine. Thanks for sharing, great video.
useful info, thank you very much, Chris, my bro, and have a great new week, best wishes for you :)
Thank You Bro
Like you paint your nails LOL I have painted my wife's once when she needed me to. Great vid Chris
It's a sticky quickie! Perfect presentation, all the meat and no filler.
Lmao Stickie Quickie
oh my dear lord I never read this comment
Thanks 4 posting this brother!!! I really need 2 do this 2 a few kwads!!!
Its worth it
Good video chris. The stuff works great..snow is no match
Thanks Mike it well worth it
I'm from Philly and your accent is close enough to ours where I definitely trust everything you say
Lol Yea I'm close I try to tell it straight Thanks
That’s all well and good but what about the ports how would you waterproof them? I would like the fc to be completely waterproof and still be able to use the usb ports?
Great information Chris :-)
Thanks John
Great video thanks for showing. Do you put it on the bottom of the board too ? 👍👍
Yupp bottom and top
Can you do one video on cleaning & coating a old SAM and/or old PCB board taken out from a 15 years old Mercedes!
Awesome info my friend 👍😉🍻
Thanks Clint
Nice one my friend. 🤜💥🤛
Thank You Sir
If you didn't know, the "modified" actually is UV fluorescent. So you can use a UV lamp to see what you have coated already :D
The ports thing is a misnomer. It's a pain in the ass to rub the pins off but it's doable even easier if you reflow the joint. Protect those fetz! I love how most quad guys (not you as I don't know you) have no idea what a fet is or how an esc works in conjunction with all the different parts. Most can't even solder or use a multimeter. I've watched mod videos that were an absolute joke and an 800 dollar piece of bleeding edge tech were bricked because they never bothered to practice soldering or even learn what a fet actually is.
Does this protect against oxidation as well? Will it make a PCB last longer? (Even if not exposed to water)
Hi, great video. Can you solder onto pads that have the coating on?
Yes, absolutely it burns away with Heat Thanks for Stopping by
Good info pimp juice✌
Pimp juice fo rizzle loll
I searched to see if you made any other conformal coating videos and you didn't. I was hoping to see the dunk test. Was that ever done?
do they come in high temp versions? i want to put liquid metal on the cpu and gpu of my laptop. i want to coat around the dies just in case the liquid metal spills over after applying the heatsink
what is diffrence between this one and the one UV ? uv cured with uv light or ?
Does it change the thermal properties?
really useful info there mate
*😀🔍fully viewed✅ supporting one another🔎🎭✅ it got our like 👍🇦🇺👍😀*
Thanks Billy
I have landed a couple times deep in snow without conformal coating and all I'm saying is after rinsing it with warm water and letting it dry in a warm place everything has worked just fine. Just don't ever plug it back in when it's wet, have got a prop to spin pretty fast for no reason in my room and it made a mess.
Exactly. And I know your comment is old but for anyone that comes across this video on Google like I did:
Electronics are only damaged by moisture in 2 ways. The first is getting wet while powered, this causes shorts to occur and can damage components. At the very least it usually causes the device to misbehave until the shorts are removed. If nothing crazy shorts (i.e. shorting a 12V supply to a data pin) the device might still function once dry. When a device is unpowered (which is not necessarily the same as turned off), liquid will not typically ruin it right away -- that's why if your phone or other device gets wet most sites/people recommend you immediately power it off.
The other way moisture can cause damage is corrosion. Liquid can destroy something even if it's powered off by corroding it. That's why you can say, spill soda/water/etc on something, you wait a bit, turn it on, and it still works, but a few days to weeks later, it suddenly stops working. That's because though there was no short preventing it from working, but the liquid corroded something during that time to the point where it can no longer function.
Again, I know you probably know this, just putting it out there for anyone coming across this video/comment. :)
Do you need to need the under of the FC ?
Great tip Chris! I have painted model cars but have never painted my nails, have you???🤣🤣🤣🤣✌👍
Yupp painted Crystals nails before lol
@@md95tsi Hell yea, toe nails? I got that toe fetish thingy lmao!!!🤣🤣🤣
what about the solder pads ? do you need to solder your wires first and then coat.
Yes coat after Your all done with Soldering Thanks Bro
This is on my "to do" list.
Same
Its worth it
can you solder to the board after you coat and then recoat. im asking becouse i have never used this stuff but might want to.
Yes heat burns it off and then just recoat was repaired
Chris Riley Music Drone Videos I’ve been using clear nail polish. It seems to work just fine.
Good tips Mdti95
Does the mg chemicals spray work?
Is it possible to use b7000?
Thanks. I am worried if I don't coat the boot button it will cause problems when getting wet? Or if I coat the button it will flow under it and destroy the function? What do you say?
I say you are correct! I've just finished coating CB radios and i had huge issues with PTT press to talk and other buttons. I had to fart around to get the stuff off using another product and it wasn't fun. However liquid glue is less viscous and very easily removed. U could drop a dab over it to remove later. As this button has to be pressed down to make contact its a relatively unknown quantity whether water would cause an electrical connection. Personally I'd certainly not coat the boot button as it's the other more exposed components that are the issue. Others have mentioned not to coat the gyro but im not certain of the validity of this. If you land in water let it dry before u fly.
It’s weird cause it’s wet like water does that not damage it ?
can you clean your FC and ESC with isopropyl alcohol after using this silicone conformal coating? or will the isopropyl dissolve away the silicone coating
I tried doing that and immediately there was a very sharp smell (probably toxic too) so don't try it.
I used it on a AIO whoop board and now Beta says I don't have a Gyro. Won't arm cause no Gyro and RPM filtering. 🤦♀So I guess only thing to do is try and remove it. I don't understand what happened but I did see that it happened to others on the web.
Would have been nice to see this on the Noob channel ;)
No password Yet lol
Hey so because you cant put it in the ports. It will never be fully water proof right?
You are correct. This is just extra protection but certainly not perfect. I believe you would need to use special waterproof connections and coat the entire thing in some type of epoxy. There is a more detailed explanation further up in the comments.
Can you use conformal coating, on a board that is connected to a power source?
Conformal coating is non conductive
Make sure its silicone and not acrylic, because the silicone does a better job. Gives no reason or evidence how. Good tips though
Think about it….what are microchips made from???😱🇺🇸😆
03:29 where's that video i cant find it when you test water resistance
Hi, How to protect the drone motor from rain? Or it does't need ...? 😊
Apparently drone motors already have a waterproof coating on the wires.
Just make sure to rinse with distilled water and dry well after taking a dunk to avoid corrosion
Do I have to remove flux residues before applying conformal coating ?
its best to
old types of flux used to eat away at the electronics and board.
what about motors ! do you coat em ?
Nope. The Motors are ''waterproof''. But the bearings might start rusting a bit with water
Never coat motors
I spilled that shit too 😂
How long to dry
it drys really fast
No effing way you weren't BS in me thank you
Told You I got Ya Brother
I don't think you should be touching the board with your hands . I was always told by computer guys never use unprotected hands .
Thanks for the Tip I will remember that
@brettwilson I work for a coating house and we wear gloves and live, eat, die, breathe ESD standards by wearing wrist straps/foot straps for grounding lol cosmetically companies don't like fingerprints 😑 but oils and other foreign debris from your hands can definitely cause issues down the road with conformal coating whether it be AR, UR, parylene, silicone, etc... 👍
do not coat the ground connections. mask off areas you dont want to coat.
Thank You I will do that
I put it on my quad and I can’t remove it 😭
I have never Put it on and Needed to Remove try 100 percent Rubbing Alcohol
Nobody says c-formal for short
I do
"pcb board"
well shit i bought the acrylic one 😒
Ich habe mir die Arbeit gemacht und ein Dokument erstellt mit wichtigen Informationen zum Conformal Coating..
Ihr könnt hier gerne mal reinschauen :) bit.ly/3fx2Ecw