Battery already crapping out, ideas?

[Dr_Righteous]

Eh, I replaced the one in my A4K with a barrel type Ni-MH battery. I've never had any issues with it.

[Castellen]

I generally replace RTC batteries with the original Varta 3/V80H as well, but it's a fact they only have a service life of around 6 years max.  After that, they can start leaking at any time.  So as long as you replace the battery every 6 years, it's good enough.

When I'm doing battery replacements in customer's machines, I have a pre-printed label to stick on the back showing the battery replacement date and the replace by date.

@Amiduffer
I might look at setting up a "do-it-yourself kit" of some sort then over the next few weeks/months as well as writing an application note/tech article for my webserver.
It's nearly summer here in NZ which means the end of yet another snowboarding season :-(  On the plus side, I can actually get some work done now, so will see if I can fit it in with my other summer projects.

Send me an email so I have your contact details.  I can probably do something cheap as a product trial in exchange for some feedback email, etc.

[K7HTH]

Interesting thread. With a battery installation enhancement I just may start using batteries in my Amigas again.

[TjLaZer]

Yeah just do the Lithium Hack and be done with it!  No need to worry about leaking batteries or headaches on getting the rechargable coin cells to work...

[tonyvdb]

TjLaZer wrote:
No need to worry about leaking batteries or headaches on getting the rechargable coin cells to work...

had my 3.6v rechargable Lithium Ion coin cell in my A4000 for over a year now and have left it on many times for days on end to render stuff without any trouble so I doupt if there will be any troubles. I have checked it several times with a volt meter and it is always charged and never hot or even warm to the touch.

[Hyperspeed]

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.