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- From: EFR@ballarat.edu.au (Frank Russell)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Battery Acid Timebomb
- Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 15:31:17
- Organization: University of Ballarat
- Message-ID: <EFR.171.000F8597@ballarat.edu.au>
- References: <4efa0d$apr@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <4er37d$fta@mksrv1.dseg.ti.com>
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- Keywords: acid, motherboard, batteries, grief, despair
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- In article <4er37d$fta@mksrv1.dseg.ti.com> Ya, right. (Mike Neus) writes:
- >From: Ya, right. (Mike Neus)
- >Subject: Re: Battery Acid Timebomb
- >Date: 1 Feb 1996 19:10:37 GMT
- >Keywords: acid, motherboard, batteries, grief, despair
-
-
- >>Has there ever been a real solution found for the battery backup timebomb
- >>problem found? For those of you not familiar with this, lurking inside
- >>every Amiga with a battery backup, there is a non-removable battery which
- >>may just die quietly someday, if you're lucky. Or if you're not lucky,
- >>it could spew caustic chemicals all over your motherboard traces, leaving
- >>you with a very expensive, once multitasking, doorstop. And one heck of
- >>a bad temper.... This is also true of bridgeboards that have battery
- >>backed CMOS/setups, and being a bridgeboard user, I am equally interested
- >>in finding a solution for that also.
-
- >This is a "problem" in every AT class PC too. I have never heard of a
- >battery "exploding" for NFR. I think your worried about nothing.
-
- >>I'm surprised there isn't more discussion on this. It's the
-
- >Maybe because it has never happened??
-
- >>lurking timebomb inside every battery backed Amiga, and on
- >>every bridgeboard, and a solution has to be found.
-
- >Why are you so worried over this? If they havn't leaked by now, they're not
- >going to. Put your cover back on and replace the battery only if it goes
- >dead.
-
- > -Mike Neus
-
-
-
- Don't you believe it Mike. Those little batteries often cause problems in PC
- clones, especially batteries fabricated in certain Asian countries. If Amigas
- have not suffered the problem it is simply by good luck! Incidently, they
- often begin to leak well before they discharge enough to draw attention to
- themselves.......
-
- The solution that seems to be favoured by most contemporary motherboard
- manufacturers is to use Lithium batteries which very rarely leak, (but Heaven
- help you if they do!)
-
- Cheers
-
- Frank Russell
- University of Ballarat
-