I’m not super technically proficient but I’ve been encountering the dead RAM battery issue with soldered in pins 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 next time battery replacement will be easy. I just replaced the soldered in CR2032 on my Sequential Split 8 this weekend and the Yamaha SY99 about a month ago. It does involve dismantling the synths and removing circuit boards and desoldering the dead battery and soldering in a battery holder. Radio Shack stocks a battery 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 but effective. You can order a coin type battery from Radio Shack online that’s not a CR2032 but should work.
I also just tried to pick up a CR2032 battery with presoldered pins from a big electric supply store and it was a special order item so I would have to pay shipping. Any big online store could order CR2032s with leads attached. Of course, do not try to solder pins, wires or anything else directly onto a battery.
Too many of my synths are getting to the age where they need new batteries and backlights. Anyone else have troubles with the programming buttons on their EX 8000s? Several on mine are very hard to get 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 8000 question: does it receive aftertouch information
--- In mailto:DW8000%40yahoogroups.com, "F.Manduca" <resistenzaaoltranza@...> wrote:
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> This is a common issue: since I have some old keyboards & expanders, I already knew I had to change the old batteries (mainly CR 232,if I am not wrong) 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 know where to purchase this kind of batteries. Any help welcome and blessed!
It's a CR2032, and it is possibly the single most common coin-cell battery on the 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.