#Amiga 500 clock battery
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Help! My A500 memory/clock battery is dead. No computer shops around here can
replace it. I need specifics on the battery type, voltage, etc. to find a
suitable replacement. The battery currently in place is a VARTA 30/60, that's
all it says.
Maybe a mail-order address for a replacement if you know of one. Thanks. Rich
Marlen 71460,1066
Richard,
I called CBM years ago when mine went and they acted like it couldn't
happen. "Your battery failed? No way!"
I opened up the shield and there it was, soldered in place, a fat dead
cylindrical bug. I found a replacement that matched it volt for volt and
soldered in a clip for it. I doubt that you can find an identical replacement,
nobody makes stuff that cheap anymore.
Perhaps someone else here can tell you the voltage, I forget. Any
lithium battery of sufficient voltage should work, but don't solder it in
directly – lithium batteries are dangerous that way if you don't know what you
are doing.
-John M. Vreeland in Virginia
Are you very sure that it is dead? Have you tried SETCLOCK? Are you
using a version other than the original 1.3 release?
—Betty