Note from August 30, 2026, 11:00 PM

I finally took the AMS apart and it turned out to be beyond repair. I mean, maybe it could be fixed, but it would be expensive and complicated, and I still wouldn’t have any guarantee that the same thing wouldn’t happen again.

The story is that some time ago I bought a calcium chloride-based dehumidifier and put it inside the AMS because it was cheap and I didn’t know that, as it pulls moisture from the air, it turns into... brine.
I only found out once everything inside was already wet.

I tried to dry and clean the AMS, but it’s not that simple. The brine doesn’t absorb very well, so in practice I’d have to remove all the electronics, thoroughly wash and rinse all the plastic with water, and replace every part the salt had already reached and started corroding. So at least the motherboard and some of the internal wiring. In my opinion, it would still be risky to leave any of the electronics in there because I can’t rinse them out, and I’d risk some salt being left somewhere and eventually damaging the new electronics too. So unfortunately, the AMS was a write-off, and yesterday I simply ordered a new one. That has its upsides too, because the new version of the AMS is only a little more expensive and already has a built-in dryer. Oh well, lessons cost money.