16 Jul
2024
16 Jul
'24
7:21 a.m.
On 2024/07/16 6:28 a.m., Paul Koning wrote:
Battery leakage was the issue - having dealt with a great many logic
boards damaged or destroyed by leaking Ni-Cad batteries.
I've since seen a photo of the inside of the NeXT and it looks like they
used a plug in Lithium battery, so that risk is no longer of much
concern to me.
John :-#)#
On Jul 16,
2024, at 9:05 AM, John Robertson via cctalk<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
I'm just starting to clean up a NeXT system that a friend has had in storage for
decades...
I assume the thing has a battery somewhere - I just hope it isn't Ni-Cad!
At that age it might well be. So what? I think they are still available. Or you
can replace it by a non-rechargeable battery. That's what I did with the ToD clock
battery in my Pro; a lithium coin cell with a series diode to prevent "charging"
is not an ideal solution but adequate, and it would be better if I used a Schottky diode
rather than a plain Si rectifier diode I happened to have lying around.
paul