Hi Roy.

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.

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

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

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

 -=> Bye <=-

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