Okay. Then this battery is working... which means it almost certainly is a
replacement, since I can’t imagine a 32 year old NiCd holding a charge.

On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 10:06 AM B4 Me100 <[email protected]> wrote:

> If I recall that is reasonable charge level, but with only  ~200-400uA
> drain it could stay there for quite a while.    The standby current is
> ~50uA @ 3.0V or  ~100uA @ 5.5V for the 8Kx8 SRAMs.
>
> From: M100 <[email protected]> on behalf of Tom Wilson <
> [email protected]>
> Reply-To: <[email protected]>
> Date: Friday, March 13, 2020 at 9:50 AM
> To: <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [M100] T-102 is here!
>
>
> Yes, 4.3v sounds right for the charge voltage of a 3 cellNiCd pack.
>
> So now I’m confused by why or how that circuit is holding 4.2-4.3v with no
> AAs in the holder. Are there a lot of caps in that circuit?
>
> I have a hard time believing that a 1987 era battery is holding a charge,
> but I hat the AAs out for a while with the memory switch on, and the
> voltage in that circuit never dropped.
>
> Should I put a small load on that circuit, maybe an LED with a 200 ohm
> resistor?
>
> --
Tom Wilson
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