Radio Shack sells a holder for the button battery for a few bucks, thats what I put in mine. The battery lasts for many years in my experience (with 3 SD-1s).
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 10:42 PM, musicwithharry <musicwithharry@...> wrote:When I performed the tests, the battery voltage kept going between 138 and 139. I assumed that it meant 1.38 and 1.39 and that it did not show that way in the display.
Yes, the batteries are 3v DC. I do not have the nickel-sized battery in mine, but rather the cylindral one. It is the big yellow one, so when I replace it, I have to replace it with that one.
I was going to replace it anyway, since when I bought the board in 2006, the guy was not sure that it had ever been replaced.
No worries, just wanted to get an idea from other users in the know who have knowledge on it too :) I've done research online about the cylindral battery. From what I've read, they recommend that you use the same battery to replace that one and not the coin-sized 3v ones that everyone talks about.
It looks really simple to replace. All I really have to do is order the new battery, unsolder the old one and put in the new one. I may not even have to remove the board from the synth to replace it since the battery has tabs on each side. Just heat up and push it through :)
Any additional thoughts or ideas?
Grace,
Harry
--- In Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com, STEPHEN PRATT wrote:
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> You sure you don't mean 1.38?
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> The standard nickel size backup batteries are 3 Volts DC.
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>> On Oct 22, 2013, at 9:28 PM, musicwithharry wrote:
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> > I performed the Analog tests on my VFX-SD earlier and the battery voltage says 138. Is that a good number? If not, what should it be?
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> > Grace,
> > Harry
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Re: [Ensoniq-VFX-SD] Re: VFX-SD battery Voltage
2013-10-23 by STEPHEN PRATT
Sam at Syntaur.com stocks replacements.
Just make sure you get the right pin configuration. Some have two pins at one end.
On Oct 23, 2013, at 11:26 AM, Richard Horton wrote: