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From: rms@meccsd.MECC.MN.ORG (Roger M. Shimada)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: ][GS Ram Battery
Message-ID: <906@meccsd.MECC.MN.ORG>
Date: 7 Jul 88 23:44:54 GMT
References: <8807051516.aa05766@FHP2.HUACHUCA-EM.ARPA>
Reply-To: rms@meccsd.UUCP (Roger M. Shimada)
Organization: Minn. Educ. Comp. Corp.
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In article <8807051516.aa05766@FHP2.HUACHUCA-EM.ARPA> hwallace%asbt-te.huachuca-em.arpa@HUACHUCA-EM.ARPA ("Vic Wallace, C, PSD, ASB-TEP ") writes:
>Has any one else had ][GS RAM battery failure yet?  Mine is 20
>months old and now puts out less than 80 millivolts.  (I'm
>surprized the clock and ram operated down to such a low voltage.)
>The Owners Manual says that we should expect from 5 to 10 years
>life from the battery.

Battery failure?  Heh.  There are probably three or four dozen
GSes here at MECC, of which at least 3 batteries have died.  I
also own an AT&T 3B1 which has the same battery and it has also
died.

I've jumped a AA battery to a GS here just so I can keep the
Control Panel settings.

It seems to me that the more often that you have the machines
on, the more likely the lithium batteries are going to die.

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Roger M. Shimada	{amdahl!hplabs}!bungia!meccts!rms	rms@MECC.MN.ORG