OM, I remember writing about my adventures with alkalines a couple of
years ago... virtually ALL of my 680x0 vintage Macs and a couple of my
early PowerMac machines have "home-made" battery packs, and I've never
had a single problem.
I got most of Macs free, or for about $5 or so, so it was especially
galling to think about having to pay $10 or more for a PRAM battery. My
solution was to get a $1.49 plastic battery holder from Radio $hack, adapt
it slightly (it was made to hold 4-AA cells, so I shorted one position out)
and soldered the output wires to the terminals of the existing battery holder
on the Mac. Always carefully checking the polarity of the wires, of course.
Before anyone questions the idea of THREE batteries in series, a potential
4.5 volts compared to the 3.6 volts most vintage Macs require, let me point
out that partially-exhausted alkalines usually put out about 1.2 volts each,
and maintain that lower voltage for a very long time! In my case, batteries
that would no longer work in my pager worked just fine in this application!
Indeed, it's been two years now with most of them, and they're still
chugging along, maintaining time and date with ease...
Rob
>Are the listers that had reported about putting 1.5V alkalines in
>series a couple of years ago still listening? I wasn't lucky in the
>LEM archives, but maybe that's just me. I'd be specially interested in
>feedback from the guy who said a threesome 1.5V AAA killed his Plus's
>mainboard.
>
>Cheers, OM
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