Fairlight-CMI

Hello Billyrock,

The only purpose and role this battery will do in your CMI is to keep  
the
clock running while it is switch off, so you don't have to set the  
time each
time you power it on. It has NO other influence in the CMI.

If you don't mind having a bad time displayed, which can't be right  
anyway
due to the millenium bug in the OS9, then you can perfectly use your CMI
without any battery at all.

Don't expect the battery to fix anything else.

Many people prefer to remove the battery because it can generate severe
damages when getting old and leaking... So no battery could be a good  
choice...

So if your CMI is not working without the battery, I'm afraid you have  
to find
the origin of the failure.

Did the previous baterry did leak ?

Hope it helps.

     Laurent.