[sdiy] Question regarding IC replacement in Akai AX80 (was: Akai AX80 weird PWM behaviour . . . )

[Doug Terrebonne]

--- On Sun, 7/15/12, Gordon JC Pearce <gordonjcp at gjcp.net> wrote:

> 
> > I have to chime in and say that is horrible advice.
> I've had to repair a lot of
> > synths and drum machines that used standard AA or other
> alkaline batteries where
> > they leaked all over the place... Stick with the
> lithium coin cell. :)
> 
> Ah, they're all about as bad as each other.
>

Hmm well I don't think I've ever seen a ooin cell lithium that's leaked in a synth... I would say after 15 years there'd be about 1% chance one would have leaked vs. probably 90% chance with AAs...