Jasen Betts wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 JB> Hi Roy.

 JB> 12-May-04 20:06:19, Roy J. Tellason wrote to MIKE ROSS


 RJT> I haven't encountered that much in the way of glue with those
 RJT> that I've removed from a bunch of boards here.  A lot of them
 RJT> were leaking

 MR>> You could always avoid the problem and use a 4 AA battery pack
 MR>> adaptor plugged into the external battery connector.

 RJT> If there is a connector in there,  I don't recall.  And if I had
 RJT> such a battery pack,  that is.  I know of one guy who got only
 RJT> about a year out of one of those.

 JB>  different boards want different voltages from the pack...
 JB>  the early ones wanted 6v, later ones want 4.5 or 3.6

And some boards,  or some packs for that matter,  have a resistor in series
with the output wire.

 RJT> As it is, I do have this nicad sitting here..

 JB> you may as well use it then, it might be worth mounting it remote
 JB> from the motherboard

There's a thought.  I am not in the habit of turning that machine off at
all, so I'm not real worried about it.  The main thing just now is that I
don't have either a monitor or a keyboard hooked up to that box,  so if we
do lose power it's going to be a bit of a PITA to deal with...

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