what is "spare pia?? i don' tknow what it does but it's there for a reason:)(someone said date and time) so i'm replacing instead of just removing.
don't worry about the soldering, just go by the stuff i wrote out, practice removing parts like soldered in ic's, from some throw away electrics item first and you should be fine. Happy to answer any and all soldering/desoldering questions but offline cause don't want to torture the list any more than necessary:)
It's not a commonly used battery. Lucky they still make it, really.You can order this part online from many places. You can start with Tadiran.com and then find distributors in your area from their site, or just do a search for "Tadiran" TL-5135/P or/s
Again they're not much money. Got mine at Digikey.com( phone 1-800-344-4539, Part number 439-1024-ND) they were very nice when i called to confirm), can't remember if
they were one of them, but some places have a minimum order or a charge if you're not above that there are plenty that will sell you one inexpensively. You might be able to rig something of a socket up but i'd talk with Tadiran about that because it's a weird 3 pin in a triangle shape format. Figure i'll only have to do this once a decade so just soldered that puppy in.
glenn
pstnotpd wrote:
pstnotpd wrote:
Hi Glenn,
Thanks, I suspected there was some soldering involved :o(
I'm more a software guy. At the moment I'm trying to figure out a way
to use the apparently spare pia to tranfer MDOS disk files from and to
a PC......
Might it be an idea/possible to place a battery socket or something
like that on the board. I have an ensoniq DP4 which basically had the
same problem (fixed battery) and a common "fix" is to replace it with
a socket.
Haven's seen this type of battery here in the Netherlands....
And ehm, what is this battery supposed to do anyway?
Cheers,
Patrick