OK so Sean got his own, so, Mike & Gary?
I'll throw in some jst connectors so if you want you can take a stab at
making the pack disconnectable too for storage and for future
replacement without any more soldering. I thought it might be good to be
able to store the thing with the battery disconnected while the bus pins
are buried in conductive antistatic foam. Plus just future owners won't
have to keep resoldering the pcb for future batter changes.
I don't know if it will really fit, and I didn't think of it until I
already soldered mine. But I have a bunch of these connectors and I
tried a dummy test fit just sticking the empty connector housings in a
cavity next to the molex socket and then putting the ram board back, and
it looks like it should actually fit with the wires in theory.
Here is the empty connector housings (red thing), both male & female
connected the way they would be. It's hard to see from stright above
like this but the depth is low enough that the pcb does install and lay
right over top of the connectors. It looks like there is just room for
the wires to snake out & back.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/gVjRYPRcKmriWn29A
I was surprised that definitely the battery is needed for more than just
holding the ram contents alive during standby. When I tried running with
the unit installed with no battery connected (no dead battery pulling
the rails down), even with the pcb fully cleaned in my ultrasonic and
dried, it *barely* worked. It usually crashed the machine any time I
tried to run the Bank# menu enries. The relay would click and the screen
would die and that's it, have to cold reset to get a menu again.
And since installing the new pack, it seems to work perfect with no
relay clicks and no main menu crashes or even appearing to be trying
hard or anything.
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bkw
On 2/16/23 23:45, Mike Stein wrote:
Yeah, I'm sure surprised by how many of us have come out of the woodwork ;-)
m
On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 11:01 PM Sean O’Brien <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Thanks Gary! But no, I’ll soon have a surplus of them. So if you or
anyone else needs one… just ask. :D (Seems like there are more of
these expansion banks still out there than I’d have thought. )
Sean
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> On Feb 16, 2023, at 11:27 PM, Gary Weber <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
> But you need it, don't you Sean?
> I just visited the eBay link and they're still selling them; I
have no problem ordering one there.
>
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bkw
