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- From: claevius@prairienet.org (Brent Busby)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Battery Acid Timebomb
- Date: 28 Jan 1996 18:09:21 GMT
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- Michael van Elst (mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de) wrote:
- : claevius@prairienet.org (Brent Busby) writes:
- : >Is there a source from which similar, long lasting batteries like the
- : >ones being used in the A3000T and the A2386SX can be found?
-
- : Doesn't matter. You need a 3.6V rechargable NiCD battery. You can
- : by a standard battery holder box and use 3 standard cells of 1.2V each.
-
- Thank you! Do you think batteries like this could be found at a store
- that sells watch batteries? I know of a store in my area that sells
- watch and calculator batteries. Are these rare enough that it would
- be too hard for a store like that to get? (I've never bought anything
- like this before...)
-
-
- : >(The sides
- : >of the batteries mention that they are NiCad, but even if they are
- : >rechargeable, they cannot obviously be recharged while permanently
- : >connected to the PCB.)
-
- : Sorry, no. They are rechargable and _are_ recharged automatically
- : whenever the Amiga is turned on. If they weren't recharged they
- : would be empty after a few months.
-
- : Since they are recharged it might be a bad idea to use a non-rechargable
- : battery.
-
- Oh, I see! Then really I suppose it's not the batteries actual charge
- that determines when your computer is nuked; it's the batteries durability
- to be recharged over and over and over. And when it can't do it anymore,
- *that's* when you Amiga's motherboard gets a lesson in inorganic
- chemistry... I see. :-) (This is good, because it means theoretically
- that for some Amigas, it might *never* happen, but of course, even all
- rechargable batteries have a time to die eventually I suppose...)
-
-
- : You mixed things up. Static column ram is (possibly) your main memory
- : and it is not battery backed-up :)
-
- : To set the CMOS setup you can use a tool like SetBattMem.
-
- : It _is_ a CMOS setup just in the way clones store their BIOS and chipset
- : parameters. It is just used for a few things though.
-
- Ah, okay. I just remember when I upgraded to Kickstart 3.1, Expert
- Services told me that if I had SCSI bus lockup problems (which I
- didn't, but at the time I thought that I did...), that I should
- obtain SCRAM and change a few settings. I assumed that if any
- settings changes in SCRAM would survive a cold bootup that they
- must be battery backed.
-
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- 040 /// | Brent Busby ("Sequencer") | Santa in their yard. Santa
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