Battery on A4000T (Escom)

[J-Golden]

Was looking into doing the battery repacement trick (put in a watch battery) but was wondering about two things.

1) The previous owner soldered on a lil case that holds 2 "AA" batteries.  It's ugly as sin, but if I can put rechageables in there (only has "super" alkaline in it right now) would it be better?

2) the A4000T has a pin header that says "battery" in the front most bottom corner.  Would it be better to just socket the battery that way instead of soldering?

J-Golden

PS- my solid state IDE 512mb is on it's way... WA-WHO!!!!!

[PaSha]

2) the A4000T has a pin header that says "battery" in the front most bottom corner.  Would it be better to just socket the battery that way instead of soldering?

You can use the battery header, that's what it's intended for, and it is a simpler solution.

[Colin_Camper]

I'm lazy and had Analogic do mine.

If someone went to the trouble of soldering an AA case in - I would use AA's. They're cheap, they should last 5 years and are less likely to leak if high quality.

Since when was an A4000 M/B pretty?  :roll:

I think I am right in saying that you cannot use rechargables at all.

[billchase]

You can, just don't expect them to recharge from the board.

C Snyder

[X-ray]

@ J-Golden

If you browse the pictures that I contributed to the Photo Album you will find something useful. Just get a 3.6 V lithium battery pack. The one I got was a Maxell, from Maplins.

[J-Golden]

X-ray wrote:
@ J-Golden

If you browse the pictures that I contributed to the Photo Album you will find something useful. Just get a 3.6 V lithium battery pack. The one I got was a Maxell, from Maplins.

Saw em.  and very nice!!! The case for the AA batteries look JUST like that, so much That I though t is was one of those types soldered one!!!

What I might do now is desolder it and connect it the same way yours is. It'll make for a much cleaner looking system

Side note, I like what you did with your cross bar.  Me, I just hacked the sucker off at the back of the front drive bays because it was blocking to many critical componants...

J-Golden

[J-Golden]

If I wanted to do the watch battery fix anyway would I still need to put in the Diode - 1N914 to keep it from exploding, etc.?

J-Golden

[Will-i-am]

as x-ray said, the 3.6 phone battery works fine plugged into the 'battery' pins on the side of the mobo. A kid from next door showed me how to remove the narrow, 2 pin plug on the end of the wires so I had two separate wires with teeny little metal clips. There's a teeny plastic clip you lift up on the plug end that frees the wires with their metal clips intact. They slid onto the pins on the Miggy mobo fine and I glued some velcro to the side of the battery so I could remove it and recharge it in a phone base when I needed to. Very easy. Thanks, x-ray, for the good idea.