Fairlight-CMI

Hi Laurent -thank you for your input. I have heard your view before regarding the battery. 
I did have a previous problem with my machine (5 years ago the machine took increasingly 
long intervals to boot up - after replacing the battery on q133 card all was well). I have 
not had any leakage from old batteries. It may be that replacing the battery has no benefit.
I'm pretty sure I have eliminated the QWERTY and cabling as the source of the problem.
I will report as soon as I get to see if new battery fixes my problem.
 I am very open to suggestions so please forward any ideas you guys may have. 
Thank you all for your support and suggestions. I am very grateful for our Fairlight 
community.
Peace
Billyrock


--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, Laurent LEMAIRE <llemaire1@...> wrote:
>
> 
> 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.
>