Epic

Right.. im in the middle of doing my eyebrow upgrade as i basicly fuked it up and had to replace the original LED board! Since i been messin about condensation has built up in one side.. Theres a fair bit of water in there!

Now i spent about 3 hours yesturday with a hair dryer and got 90% of the water out.. but that last 10% wouldnt go, so thought id leave it over night as it wasnt raining and its a proper nice sunny day today.. now back to sqaure one! Theres lots of water droplets in there again... I just need to get rid of the condensation so i can seal the unit back up again with my new LED's

Any suggestions?

(Also when i was drying it out with the hair dryer, where the water droplets were its left water marks! how anoying, my own fault i guess)

Nearly there tho!

latho

Epic,

You are going to need to do something along these lines:
1. Remove the head light
2. Take all of the covers off the back
3. Use hair drier to warm the air.
4. Blast cold air (some hair driers have a button for this) into the back of the light
5. Repeat 3 & 4 until all of the condensation has gone.
6. Cool head light by blowing cold air through it.

The reason simply heating the light appears to work then the water comes back is due to the properties of air. Warm air is able to carry more moisture than cold air (hence only seeing your breath in the winter). When you warm the headlight the relative humidity of the air decreases allowing the condensation to evaporate into the air, when the light cools the relative humidity rises to 100% after which the excess moisture condenses.

If you don't fancy doing that you could always put some of those silica bags in the back of it.

I'm sure this isn't very clear and contains multiple spelling/grammatical errors, but all the same I hope it helps.

Dom

pane2k

You can also use high pressure air from an air compressor to blow it all out as well, provided the compressor isn't filled with water and blowing out water.

Epic

Thanks thats some good advice. I will take the headlight out this weekend i think and do it all then as im on lates this week. I thought about using them silicon bags myself but didnt have a clue where to get hold of any lol.

Do you know how easy it is to get the headlight it self out

Epic

irshad

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Maybe this will help

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Good luck

latho

Epic,

You can buy the stuff from here --> http://www.airandwatercentre.com/store/SEU...tcategories.htm but it's an expensive way of doing it, or you can buy Silica gel on ebay, for less.

When I removed the headlight to replace a blown sidelight, I followed a DIY from the forum.

Dom

DKNewYork

Definitely need to take out the headlight. Bag the connectors and tape it up. Place a garbage bag over the hood and use blue tape to hold it in place. Bring the headlight in and blow dry it. That should do the trick. Just make sure you seal it with hot glue then silicone. You wouldn't want to do this again.

Terraformer

I had this problem before with a truck I owned. Always taking it off every couple of weeks to dry it out.

Then, I drilled a small hole in the bottom of the assembly in a non-noticeable spot, and it never happened again. Water may get in, but the small hole provides a means with which water and condensation can escape. Face it, you broke a seal somewhere and will never get it to go away (unless it never rains or gets wet). Try the small hole. Good luck!

Epic

Opps, replyed to wrong post. never mind.. still havnt got this out yet lol