Dead CMOS Battery - NEC Powermate portable

Wasn't worth the trouble really as I had 6 of the same type board at the time so I stripped the keyboard bios chip (to replace a bad one on another exact type) and chucked it in the scrap bin for the recycler. Not even sure if it would have worked, the stuff from the battery worked pretty quick. It did eat off some of the PC board trace IIRC where it wasn't varnished. => -----Original Message----- => From: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org => [mailto:owner-classiccmp@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Tothwolf => Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2002 11:54 PM => To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org => Subject: RE: Dead CMOS Battery - NEC Powermate portable => => => On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, Russ Blakeman wrote: => => > Same stuff that combines in the atmosphere (clouds) to form rain made => > of sulfuric acid - acid rain. => > => > My previous post on the exploding lithium on a NiCD port I failed to => > mention what it did to the traces and open chip legs - corroded the => > crap out of them and it did indeed stink the hous eup but I always => > leave my shop window open a crack since I have a habit of using a lot => > of volatile chemicals for cleaning and such. => => Did ya try a little baking soda on the board soon after the battery => exploded? I've never has to experience a lithium battery explosion, but => baking soda does tend to clean up well after other mild acidic accidents. => => -Toth => =>