🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <4nle52$9p7@jedi.apana.org.au>,
>You need to use a 3 volt cell, not a 4.5 volt one. I had a few spare 3
>volt lithium cells out of old calculators, so I used one of them, and
>hacked up a battery holder out of a 3.5 mm phone socket and a small 
>piece of veroboard. The assembly is stuck on top of the NVRAM with some
>double-sided tape. It's ugly, but it works.
>
>The downside of my approach is that it gets in the way of any cards I 
>want to plug into Sbus slots 1 or 2, but since the SS1 is my gateway, 
>there's nothing plugged into them, so it's ok.

I just did the "replace the battery" trick on two of my systems.  I did 
it because I figured $6 (two batteries) was better than $40+shipping for 
two 48T02 chips.  I have no problems with losing a slot since I used 
3" wires to attach the battery (just soldered directly to the battery) 
and then wrapped it in electrical tape.  This makes for a thin, 
insulated battery that I can lay directly on the motherboard, rather 
than stacking it on the chip.  Makes so the final profile height is the 
same as the original.

TTFN (Ta Ta For Now),
Lonnie Borntreger
Lucent Technologies (Bell Labs Innovations)
 (formerly known as the New Systems & Technology Company 
  formerly known as AT&T)
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These are my opinions and not necessarily those of Lucent 
Technologies.  But then again, my opinions are just as 
good as theirs.  Of course, that's just my opinion.
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