[sdiy] DX7 battery replacement help

[cheater cheater]

Does it do that with the new battery?

On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 7:49 PM, Andre Majorel<aym-htnys at teaser.fr> wrote:
> On 2009-09-06 15:18 +0200, Ingo Debus wrote:
>
>> Given that the DX7 is from 1984 and it was its first battery, it
>> lasted pretty long, didn't it?
>
> The battery was in fact still good, in that the RAM retained its
> content. But it had started leaking.
>
> Apparently, lithium batteries can fail physically before they fail
> electrically.
>
> Strangely, the battery voltage display did not always show the
> same voltage, sometimes 2.8 V, sometimes 2.9 V, sometimes 3.0 V.
> But it had been doing that ever since I bought it, about twenty
> years earlier...
>
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> André Majorel <URL:http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/>
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