It all depends on the RTC current. A nice graph of expected life vs current (uA) for a number of CR cells is in http://www.varta-microbattery.com/applications/mb_data/documents/sales_literature_varta/HANDBOOK_Primary_Lithium_Cells_en.pdf
I had my K3 for 3 yrs when I upgraded the synth cards and I did replace the CR2032 on general principle. Cheers Rick AG6AY -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/K3-Real-Time-Clock-Battery-replacement-tp7605040p7605053.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]

