1/2 gallon of water poured on receiver, any chance of survival?

It is possible it will work since it was not plugged in. I'd put it in a warm place to completely dry before powering any circuits.

When you do plug it in again, post the result. I'll be curious.

Fill a garbage bag with rice and set the receiver on top of the rice. Close the garbage bag up and seal it and leave it for 2 days. The rice will absorb all the water, even the trace amounts. If that does not work, pretty sure it is toast.
Robert

Having soaked a couple of pieces of electronics before, I know how you feel. But based on my experience, your outlook is actually pretty good. Use wyattroa's method above. Make sure the bag is sealed up tight. Since it was distilled water, and since it didn't have power at the time, your chances of a full recovery are as good as they could possibly be in your situation. Hd it been unplugged for a while before it happened? Did it make any noises or release any of its magic smoke when it happened?

Ditto on a good prognosis. Distilled water is much better than apple juice or cola or...

I've had very good results by taking cabinets/covers off of electronics and first drying with a hair-dryer. Once you see that you've gotten the obvious moisture taken care of then comes the "patience game". Wait, wait, wait.

We have a geothermal system in our house and our air return is in the floor. We will sit stuff needing "drying" over the grates for the return vent...this is normally dry air and it whisks away the moisture from the item fairly fast.

The big thing is not applying any power until the electronics are DRY.

Patience...

Ed

My Wife put her iPhone 4S in the washer for 35 minutes. It was in an otter box but still! we put it n a bag of rice with silica gel packets (opened) for 12 hours. Then took out ad examined and then put back in for another 10. Phone has worked perfect ever since.

There is always hope.

I will just throw in this on top of what they said, I have had many electronics that seemed to be half broke and or completely broke after a water indecent. However in many cases after the electronics sat for a very long time they became better. I had a phone that I gave up on and actually replaced, 2 weeks later I just tried it for the heck of it and it worked. I have had keyboards that I thought were shot and they slowly improved over a month or 2.

So as horrible as this may sound I would say leave it unplugged and keep it extremely dry for at least a week maybe 2. However I know that will be difficult so after 2 or 3 days you probably have a decent chance. One thing though is a receiver can probably push a ton more power if something shorts. So maybe my good luck with smaller electronics will not carry over.

My guess is that there are just so many incredibly tight places water could end up that some of them take much longer than you would think to fully dry out.

Wow, thats just amazing that the receiver still works, Glad to hear!! I never knew of the rice/trash bag trick.

Some great tips in this thread. Awesome that it works again!

My daughter poured a bottle of water on the old laptop she watches cartoons on while it was running. Put it in a bag of rice for 2 weeks and it was fine!