Reminder: Check your battery!! Your Amiga may be dying!!!

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This condition is exacerbated if you don't power on your miggy very often to cycle the batteries strength.  :-(

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@KennyR

I hear this a lot - that keeping your machine on recharges the battery

 Probably because its true?  After all it is a RECHARGEABLE battery!

All that keeping the computer on does is keeps a potential across the battery and stops the electrolyte eating the casing and getting out all over your motherboard.

The reason for keeping a potential across the battery is to keep it CHARGED!
If a Nicad is unused for a long period, it will leak sooner.   So there :-D

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@Colin_Camper

Well, Ni-cads actually don't do so well in constantly charged scenarios. Unlike lead-acid they do better if they are fully cycled (last about 1000-2000 cycles) or if they are being stored, fully discharged.

I Agree, perhaps were one to store some Amiga MB's they should discharge the batteries with a 1 ohm or so wire beforehand. I am not sure though if a Ni-Cad would "come back to life" if stored with a dead short.  (probably not, but beats the alternative?)

Having said this I paid Analogic £100 last year to replace my A4K battery!

A little steep, perhaps, but its a risky custom "operation".  I would charge at least $75! 8-)