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Re: Battery already crapping out, ideas?
« on: October 18, 2006, 12:02:23 AM »
I'm looking to replace a dead battery on an SX32-Pro accelerator for the CD32. It's a DCE board and the battery is more chunky than a CR2032 but I too am thinking of doing the Aminet hack.

First I need to find out if the SX32-Pro's battery is self recharging (VL2020 style) or whether it uses a 'mortal' battery like the CR2032.
 

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Re: Battery already crapping out, ideas?
« Reply #1 on: October 22, 2006, 05:19:12 AM »
I'd much rather the Panasonic VL2020 that's fitted to the Blizzard 1260 than any kind of non-rechargeable CR2032 or barrel battery.

Varta doesn't seem a quality brand to me, not going by highstreet AA-size batteries anyway. Then again, Duracell don't make rechargeables like those new 2,700mA quick chargers.

There must be big potential for making battery plug-ins for Amiga. Remember the old parallel port clock adaptor? Then there was the rare clockport clock, the RAM expansions with clock, accelerators with clock, motherboards with surface mounted clock.