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Title: Blizzard 030 battery leakage?
Post by: dillinger on August 14, 2005, 10:59:15 PM

Hi,

I have recently upgraded my accelerator card and will not be using my old A1200 Blizzard 030 accelerator any time soon. What I would like to know is this: is there any danger in leaving the board's battery in place, or should I remove it before I store the card in my loft???

I have heard horror stories of batteries on other boards leaking and causing permanent damage. Is this a danger for Blizzard accelerators too?

thanks for any info / tips...

Title: Re: Blizzard 030 battery leakage?
Post by: Leifern on August 14, 2005, 11:05:52 PM

As far as i know, the battery on most 1200 accelerators won't leak, at least it would take a loooong time. I think that the batteries leaking are the ones mounted on the motherboards. I won't act like i know alot about this, but those flat batteries on 1200 accelerators are not at all as scary as the ones mounted on motherboards.. Well..

Title: Re: Blizzard 030 battery leakage?
Post by: anakirob on August 15, 2005, 05:11:48 AM

last year my A1200 died. After much troubleshooting it turned out that the clock battery in my 030+FPU card (I forget what brand, I think DKB) had leaked everywhere. I tried cleaning it up, no good! I took it to an amiga specialist who told me my only real option was to throw the useless thing away (the accelerator, not the A1200: which now works fine, albiet a bit slower).

Oh, I don't suppose you want to give/sell your 030 card to me instead of putting it in storage? :-D

Title: Re: Blizzard 030 battery leakage?
Post by: Chain on August 15, 2005, 05:51:38 AM

one of my bliz (MK2) has slighttly leakage and i must replace battery, damage wil be there worse than on a2000 mobo i think. too many traces

Title: Re: Blizzard 030 battery leakage?
Post by: dillinger on August 15, 2005, 08:49:30 PM

Well, judging by the response I guess I should remove the battery...."just incase"

Thanks for the feedback guys!

Title: Re: Blizzard 030 battery leakage?
Post by: Doobrey on August 15, 2005, 09:14:14 PM

Luckily I've never had a leaky battery,I ripped it out of my A4000 before it had a chance and put a new one away from the motherboard , just in case..
 But I did have the battery explode on my old Apollo 1230 Turbo after 18 months of use :pissed:
 Those Apollos deserve the reputation they got.