My buddy Larry sent me this tower, aka "The Beast" with a repaired battery situation that just recently failed. The clip that holds the coin battery snapped off at the board. I noticed the 3 pin thingy over to the side marked "battery", did some research here and decided to buy a rechargable phone battery rather than try mobo soldering tricks. The battery has this 2 hole plastic end for popping onto the inside of a phone and the Beast has 2 pins close together followed by an empty spot where a pin used to be followed by another pin. I scraped off part of a bar code sticker to reveal the plus and minus signs and then decided to NOT do this without at least trying to find out what the situation really is. Why are there 3 pins, not 2.... which are the plus and minus pins to which the battery must be attached? I have this idea that the two pins I need to use are the two furthest apart (somehow that seems like the way C= would have designed it just to mess with us) I want to try to separate the two clips in the plastic end of the new battery to allow me to at a later date repair things without soldering,unsoldering and soldering again. I bought a NiCad battery because someone somewhere posted the advice that any 3.6v phone battery would work. So if somebody knows different me and the Beast would be grateful for a heads up. Thanks.
