A501

[bloodline]

I have an A501 in my miggy, and I was looking at the great amiga-hardware.com and noticed that it has a battery backed up clock on it!!!



I didn't notice the battery before sicne my A501 has a radio sheild around it.

Any panic time as I can't get inside my ram pack, does anyone know how long these batterys go before they spew out their acidy horribleness?

[patrik]

@bloodline:

It is not too hard to remove the metal casing without mangling it, that would be my suggestion anywhow . Removed the battery of my A501 about half a year ago... it was leaking..


/Patrik

[amigamad]

a500 ram expasions dont cost to much to buy i have an external supra with 1meg doing nothing .

so if it has any damage done by leaking battery its not to much of a loss .

[bloodline]

Oh God... How did you know it was leaking!?

Looks like I'm going to have to some how get the radio sheild off.. Any tips and hints?

[patrik]

@bloodline:

If the battery is leaking it usually looks a bit "furry". Check this site about leaking clock batteries for some example pictures.

My A501 is soldered together in three places so you will need to be able to handle a soldering iron to open it without mangling it. To make it easy you should be two people doing this. One heats the the solder points one at a time while the other one holds the expansion, applying force to separate the two radio-shield plates at the corresponding solder point, ofcourse one at a time here too .

Hope this made sense and good luck!


/Patrik

[bloodline]

patrik wrote:
@bloodline:

If the battery is leaking it usually looks a bit "furry". Check this site about leaking clock batteries for some example pictures.

My A501 is soldered together in three places so you will need to be able to handle a soldering iron to open it without mangling it. To make it easy you should be two people doing this. One heats the the solder points one at a time while the other one holds the expansion, applying force to separate the two radio-shield plates at the corresponding solder point, ofcourse one at a time here too .

Hope this made sense and good luck!


/Patrik

Right yeah, mine is soldered in 3 places too... Time to get the Soldering Iron out...

[Castellen]

It's a piece of cake to get the shield off, providing you know how to solder :-)
Often some desoldering braid/wick helps a lot.

If you need info on soldering RTC batteries and repairing the RTC, you might find some of the information here useful:

http://amiga.serveftp.net/
In the battery replacement section.