If battery life ends on a synth I always replace the original battery with a holder. It simply is the same amount of work and makes future replaments easy. Hold in mind that the battery life is very dependend of the synth / gear model. E.g. my Motu Timepiece(s) need a new one every two years, others last about 12 years (Korg Z1) and so on. On the Matrix it is easy enough and feels good to have memory working properly.
A standard holder like below fits perfectly.
A helpful page on different synth is this one:
Internal Battery & Reset Resource Page
Best wishes
Marcus
---In oberheim@yahoogroups.com, <danforcz@...> wrote :
Hi, Flavio,
this can be valid argument, because it's quite possible the quality of older products was better than the recent Chinese cheap imitations :-) But I haven't any detailed and deeper information concerning this - the answer can be found after another few years of using it...
From this point of view it can be good idea to use battery holder - the next battery exchange will be easy.
If I understand well the backup battery is loaded a little bit (if it's technically possible) when the instrument is switched on, and RAM chips don't need much current to keep their contents - probably that's the main reason why battery can last so long time.
Daniel Forro
On Jun 7, 2016, at 10:43 PM, Boniforti Flavio boniforti.f@... [oberheim] wrote:F.Hi Daniel,your thoughts make sense. But isn't it that the new CR2032-like batteries are less prone to battery leakage, and therefore preferred when desoldering old/used batteries? I'm not sure this is true, it's a simple question... ;-)