hwallace%asbt-te.huachuca-em.arpa@HUACHUCA-EM.ARPA ("Vic Wallace, C, PSD, ASB-TEP ") (07/06/88)
Has any one else had ][GS RAM battery failure yet? Mine is 20 months old and now puts out less than 80 millivolts. (I'm surprized the clock and ram operated down to such a low voltage.) The Owners Manual says that we should expect from 5 to 10 years life from the battery.
rms@meccsd.MECC.MN.ORG (Roger M. Shimada) (07/08/88)
In article <8807051516.aa05766@FHP2.HUACHUCA-EM.ARPA> hwallace%asbt-te.huachuca-em.arpa@HUACHUCA-EM.ARPA ("Vic Wallace, C, PSD, ASB-TEP ") writes: >Has any one else had ][GS RAM battery failure yet? Mine is 20 >months old and now puts out less than 80 millivolts. (I'm >surprized the clock and ram operated down to such a low voltage.) >The Owners Manual says that we should expect from 5 to 10 years >life from the battery. Battery failure? Heh. There are probably three or four dozen GSes here at MECC, of which at least 3 batteries have died. I also own an AT&T 3B1 which has the same battery and it has also died. I've jumped a AA battery to a GS here just so I can keep the Control Panel settings. It seems to me that the more often that you have the machines on, the more likely the lithium batteries are going to die. -- Roger M. Shimada {amdahl!hplabs}!bungia!meccts!rms rms@MECC.MN.ORG