>> The clips on the battery or at the circuit board end? If
anyone has done this I could really use some advice.<<
If this is anything like the PB145, you have to remove the screws on the
bottom of the case with ye Torx tool. Take the bottom off. With the PB
upside down, at the back of the PB, where the speaker lives (battery and
speaker share the board), is a small board plugged into the rest of the
computer, with a flat cable also attached, held in place with another
Torx screw. You need to get the battery first, then remove the board at
the back of the computer. The battery will immediately be apparent. It
has two legs on it that have to be unsoldered. The new battery has to
go in the same way the old one came out.
Use a grounded tip soldering iron--Radio Shack blue handled beastie at
15 watts or so--and either a solder sucker or copper braid dipped in
flux. To remove the battery, place the copper braid over the connection
to be unsoldered, put the tinned tip of the iron on the braid, and watch
the solder flow into the braid. You may have to use the braid twice.
After the old battery is out, clean the flux off the board with flux
remover (relatively expensive) or a Q-tip and denatured alcohol. Solder
the new battery in place with rosin core solder (DON'T ever use acid as
a flux), clean off any new flux on the board, put it back together, and
there you are. All of a sudden, it's no longer 1904!
Donn
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