[sdiy] Roland Cr-78 troubleshoot/repair

[Gordonjcp]

On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 10:27:38PM -0700, J Brave wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> 1. I have a Roland CR-78 with original battery which has not yet leaked. I would like to replace it with a new NiCad rechargeable rather than attempt the job I see most have done disabling the charging circuit. Any reason not to do this? Any idea what exactly would be a good replacement rechargeable NiCad battery?

You can't get new NiCd batteries any more, because cadmium is pretty relentlessly horrible stuff.

The good news is that NiMH is a drop-in replacement (to a first-order approximation) and you can get them in exactly the same form factors as old NiCd memory backup batteries.

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