Need an A500+ Backup Battery

[nac]

The battery in my A500+ leaked while it was in storage and it caused the machine to fail to boot.  I had checked all the removeable chips and anything that came off but it was due to the crusty build up around the battery posts.

I need to get hold of a replacement, does anyone know the specs of the battery or where I can get hold of one in the UK?


Thanks.

[nac]

Thanks for all the info about a replacement.

The machine did start to boot with the removal of the leaked and solidified battery liquid ( at least I guess that is what it was ).

I had removed every removable chip and checked for bad contacts. I had taken the 1Mb expansion board out and also the accelerator board but it was only when I removed the goo on the battery post and board below it that the machine breathed once more.

Perhaps this goo was creating a short on another component?

I was very relived that it still works.

And why did it take so long for me to reply to all these posts? Becasue my PC decided that it wouldnt boot anymore, although to be fair the HD failed.

Thanks again.

[nac]

I have replaced the leaky battery with a 3V lithium type ( with diode ) as instructed in the the file LITHBATT.lha on Aminet.

Works fine.

I have started instructing all my Amiga owning friends to check the batterys.

[nac]

Got one! Vrrrrroooooooooom Vrrrroooom etc.

If I am right its a 28Mhz 020 with and FPU. I used to have another type which was only a 14Mhz 020 with no FPU.  Its a shame it doesnt really speed up the redraw in Workbench but things like Gloom fly alone (compared to bog standard A500).

It also has an Alfapower HD unit that plugs into the side expansion port and hanging off the back of that there is a a CD drive.   I fitted a switch on the back of the A500 ( next to the mouse port) that enables me to switch between OS's. This used to switch between CPU's on my old accelerator board as it also held the 68000 as well as the 68020 but I cant remember what that board was called.

I had beard that it was possible to connect a graphics card to the A500 but I never found one. So I gave it a Flicker Fixer and Scandoubler as the next best thing.

[nac]

Me very happy, yes. It doesnt get a lot of use but if the Amiga had died I would be very upset. That machine gave me years of near problem free computing joy.  The PC is the all powerful master of todays computer world but I doubt any platform could have had such an effect as the Amiga or possibly the C64.

It has ADoom installed as it seemed to be the fastest version I tried.

A while back I purchased Amiga Forever and I set about copying the entire Amiga HD to the PC via a serial cable ( that was fun! ) and ADoom came over as part of that. So now I can play ADoom on the PC which if you think about it is kinda like a PC emulating an Amiga runnning a PC game.