[rescue] %(#*^#(% soldered-down batteries...

[Michael Free]

Has no one answered "Radioshack" yet? Batteries Plus, too, if that's not a
local institution...

-Mike Free

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carl R. Friend" <crfriend at rcn.com>
To: "The Rescue List" <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 5:45 PM
Subject: RE: [rescue] %(#*^#(% soldered-down batteries...


>    On Sun, 25 Jan 2004, Sheldon T. Hall wrote:
>
> > From: Sheldon T. Hall <shel at cmhcsys.com>
> > Subject: RE: [rescue] %(#*^#(% soldered-down batteries...
> >
> > Carl R. Friend says ...
> > >
> > >    Does anyone here have any knowledge as to where a Tadrian TL-5186
> > > battery can be had?  The one in my SGI Indigo IRIS went flat on me
> > > and I need^W would like to resuscitate it.
> > >
> > >    Making matters worse, the bloody thing is soldered onto the main
> > > board (R4k).  Will someone please tell the designer that batteries
> > > *DIE* after a while and *need* *to* *be* *replaced*!
> >
> > I'd accuse someone of wanting to sell replacement mainboards, but,
actually,
> > they probably expected those emachines to be so obsolete by now that now
one
> > would care.
>
>    Happy news from the tundra!  According to all the FAQs on the
> matter, the bloody batteries are soldered to the main CPU board,
> but in the case of my machine the battery was actually socketed!
> (I think I must have a very late one.)
>
>    So, we're back to the original question -- "Where can a
> TL-5186 be had?"
>
> > But then, if that's the case, why did they spend so much time
> > and energy engineering them to such a high standard?  You don't need all
> > that high-zoot engineering and fabrication on something that going to be
> > landfill in 8 or 10 years.  Not to mention that the designers never
> > envisioned hobbyists taking obsolete machines over and running them, or
> > computer museums, or ....
>
>    Well, for some very low-current apps, soldering-in seems to be the
> only way to go, and if there's going to be lots of vibration (e.g.
> spacecraft) "hard-wiring" is the norm (save that those apps use welds
> and wire-wrap).  But office-environment equipment?  Foo!
>
>    Cheers.
>
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> | Carl Richard Friend (UNIX Sysadmin)            | West Boylston       |
> | Minicomputer Collector / Enthusiast            | Massachusetts, USA  |
> | mailto:crfriend at rcn.com                        +---------------------+
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