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- From: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Battery Acid Timebomb
- Date: 28 Jan 1996 21:29:49 +0100
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- claevius@prairienet.org (Brent Busby) writes:
-
- >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...)
-
- I have no idea who sell this for you. But the NiCD batteries can be bought
- here in supermarkets and warehouses. For the battery holder you need to
- find an electronic shop.
-
- >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.
-
- Right. In fact, it's not even the durability to be recharged but the long term
- stability of their package.
-
- >that for some Amigas, it might *never* happen, but of course, even all
- >rechargable batteries have a time to die eventually I suppose...)
-
- Yes. It rarely depends on the charging process though (unless you would overload
- the battery but which can't happen in the A3000 without some other defect).
- Temperature cycles, absolute temperature and phases of excessive humidity
- are more important.
-
- Regards,
- --
- Michael van Elst
-
- Internet: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de
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