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I’m not super technically proficientbut I’ve been encountering the dead RAM battery issue with soldered inpins lately and since I do not have any decent repair facilities in my area ( Seattle WA . USA ) I’ve been installing a battery harness for the CR2032 so that the nexttime battery replacement will be easy. I just replaced the soldered in CR2032on my Sequential Split 8 this weekend and the Yamaha SY99 about a month ago. Itdoes involve dismantling the synths and removing circuit boards and desolderingthe dead battery and soldering in a battery holder. Radio Shack stocks abattery holder for the CR2032 and carries it as in store stock. It costs about$1 but their batteries seem overpriced and the battery holder is crude buteffective. You can order a coin type battery from Radio Shack online that’snot a CR2032 but should work.
I also just tried to pick up a CR2032 batterywith presoldered pins from a big electric supply store and it was a specialorder item so I would have to pay shipping. Any big online store could orderCR2032s with leads attached. Of course, do not try to solder pins, wires oranything else directly onto a battery.
Too many of my synths are getting to theage where they need new batteries and backlights. Anyone else have troubleswith the programming buttons on their EX 8000s? Several on mine are very hard toget to respond and a couple do not work at all at the moment.
From:DW8000@yahoogroups.com [mailto:DW8000@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of bugsiwabbit
Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 5:25 PM
To: DW8000@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [DW8000] Re: EX 8000question: does it receive aftertouch information
--- In DW8000@yahoogroups.com,"F.Manduca" <resistenzaaoltranza@...> wrote: >
I already knew I had to change the old batteries (mainly CR 232,if I am notwrong) in order to make them work again.Unluckily, they have pre-soldered pins( three, if I am still not wrong...). I could do it by myself, but I don't knowwhere to purchase this kind of batteries. Any help welcome and blessed!
> This is a common issue: since I have some old keyboards & expanders,
It's a CR2032, and it is possibly the single most common coin-cell battery onthe planet. You can find them ANYWHERE. Radio Shack, Target, Sears, Walmart,Amazon, eBay, CVS Pharmacy, and other wretched hives of scum and villainy.Digi-Key sells them for $0.28.