On Sat, 27 Jul 2013, Ed Vance wrote to mark lewis:

 EV> 07-26-13 09:45 mark lewis wrote to Ed Vance about NoScript

 EV> BTW I replaced the CMOS battery in the XP box just now so the
 EV> problems I have been having with the time ought to be over.

 ml> excellent... finally found another tuit? or did'ja just use the
 ml> battery as one since it is round ;)

 EV> On a Scale of 1 to 5 I give You a 10 for that comment!

hey, i can only try!! O:) :lol:

 EV> A few weeks ago I did look inside the 486 box with the HOT409 MB.
 EV> IIRC the Clock battery was a NI-MH.

 ml> that's just the formula... it may still be in the shape of a
 ml> 2032 for instance...

 EV> No, it looks like a C Cell with Wires attached.

C cells are awfully large... maybe you mean an AA?? there are a lot of
those out there... we used to replace some built-in battery stuffs with
double or quad AA cells in a holder we got from radio shack... in many
cases, we could remove the old wires from the connector, very carefully
with a toothpick or simila sharp object to raise the clip holding the
connector into the plastic housing... then it was simply a matter of
connecting the wires of the new piece to the connector of the old one and
putting it back into the housing for a one-unit plug... in a lot of cases,
we soldered the new stuff to the old... but i did have a box of connector
ends that would fit the housing so we used them, too... kinda like the pins
or sockets on parallel and serial cables, those connector ends were... i've
sat in place many times crimping parallel or serial male pins or female
sockets pieces on to cables for fitting into housings...

 EV> I figured out that VL-BUS MB is Version 2 by looking at the MB and
 EV> comparing the Jumper with the drawings for V1 and V2.
 EV> The V2 jumper socket has another space for a pin IIRC.

 ml> that's one way to tell... they're not all that easy, though...
 ml> on batteries, the main thing is that you provide the same
 ml> voltage capabilities and get the polarity right... other than
 ml> that, any battery will do as long as you can connect the wires
 ml> to the drain...

 EV> Voltage and Polarity, Gotcha! Thanks.

those are the main factors... of course, the feed amperage is also a
valuable part of the formula but you know this you old radio dog, you :)

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