Yes, you should replace your soldered-in battery with welded pins with a battery holder (with its own pins) so you can use the CR2032 coin cells that don't have pins welded to them. You'll still need to solder, of course, as you'll need to solder lengthening wires to the pins of the battery holder, as well as un-soldering the dead battery's welded pins to get it out of your DW8000.
If you can't or don't know how to solder, just get someone who knows how to do it for you.
There is a website with step-by-step how-to on how to do the whole operation here:
http://www.pallium.com/bryan/dwbattery.phpThe DW8000 is shown, but the EX8000 is similar, just in a different package.
--- In DW8000@yahoogroups.com, "F.Manduca" <resistenzaaoltranza@...> wrote:
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> Thanks! Yes, when I was younger I thought I could solder pins by myself as last resource, but gave up when I read that it was really dangerous :-) . I'm goin to try and purchase a battery holder.Or the ones with the presoldered pins,since You tell me there are some. I don't bother the special delivering fee,since I should purchase at least 7 of them.Any address? Regarding the DW8000 misworking buttons, maybe there some dust or grease inside of the contacts. Did you try with a contact cleaner spray yet?All the best!
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> Oggetto: RE: [DW8000] Re: EX 8000 question: does it receive aftertouch information
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>  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.
> Â 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.
> Â 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.
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> --- 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!
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> 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.
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