upside down?

[orange]

just an idea...

What if we had stored/used our (bigbox) Amigas upside down? Would there be problems with leaking batteries/capacitors? (PCB corrosion)
or would it only bring more problems- heating, 'tension', drives..

[dougal]

I would imagine that the battery would have leaked onto the top casing rather than the motherboard .

But then again , if we knew of the battery leaking problem we would have just removed the batteries .

This week i removed the batteries from 4 Amigas .

2 A500+ are dead :-(
1 A500+ was saved (but very bad leak)
1 A4000 No leaking at all but i still removed battery :-)

orange wrote:
just an idea...

What if we had stored/used our (bigbox) Amigas upside down? Would there be problems with leaking batteries/capacitors? (PCB corrosion)
or would it only bring more problems- heating, 'tension', drives..

[amigadave]

I don't know if upside down would work for leaking capacitors, but I am pretty sure it would NOT work for batteries.

The leaking batteries usually get all fuzzy and the fuzz grows and spreads like a fungus.  This would happen the same if it was upside down, sideways, or any other orientation.  That is just my guess after observing some damaged mobo's.

[save2600]

In the arcade business, CPU boards are mounted every which way but loose. Battery acid and its fungus-like spreading, could care less about gravity. Only real solution is to mount those batteries far away from anything you care about.