Dead CMOS Battery - NEC Powermate portable

And oh boy do they explode - had a lithium attached by a dufus to the solder points of the old NIcd on a 386 motherboard - he ran it maybe 3 mins after he did the swap out - me running it, without knowing he was a dumbass that wired a litium to a recharge point, got the thrill of a loud pop and sputter as the lithium battery's guts (hot too) shot all over the powered maiboard. Not fun on the cardiac system at all. => -----Original Message----- => From: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org => [mailto:owner-classiccmp@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Tony Duell => Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2002 9:11 AM => To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org => Subject: Re: Dead CMOS Battery - NEC Powermate portable => => => > => > It is, perhaps, a stupid question; and I'm familiar with 3 => volt lithiums. What I'm attempting to get at, more precisely, is there => > anything special about the Mn02-Li's that I need to know about? => => YEs, don't recharge them. They _will_ explode. => => Seriously, I thought most 'lithium' cells were actually Li - MnO2. So => there's noting 'exotic' about them. => => -tony =>