Re: IIGS BATTERY: 3.0v or 3.6v?

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buggie@ben02.unm.edu (stephen e buggie) wrote:

>    CORRECT VOLTAGE FOR IIGS MOTHERBOARD BATTERy: 3.0V OR 3.6V?

3.6V.  It is the same battery that's used in Advanced Photo
System (APS) cameras.

>	I got another IIgs CPU ROM 1 ---- works perfectly except that the
>battery was dead.  Its battery was a 1/2 AA 3.0v, so I salvaged an
>identical (good) battery from a scrapped Mac II.

1/2AA at 3.0V?  That's a little on the low side.  Ask at your
drug store's photo counter for an APS battery.  That's the
right type.

>Now, the control panel settings are preserved normally, BUT the IIGS clock
>does not advance!
>
>I looked at another IIgs Rom 1, and its battery is 3.6v DC.
>
>Which battery voltage is optimum????

3.6V.

>BTW, I SOLDERED the battery to the leads ---no hassle.
>(I could never understand why "clip-on" was work $14 bucks!)
>
>Steve Buggie
>631 McKee Drive
>Gallup NM 87301

Probably to make money, of course!  An APS battery should
cost about $7.  Since you are soldering, you might as well
solder a holder for the battery.  It is not a good idea to apply
too much temperature to a lithium battery.  It might explode.