John Ross writes: > I have replaced them a couple of times in the past. No big deal. > I found a replacement pack at Radio Shack it was #23-245 4.8V 600mA Nickel > Cadmium, for racing cars. Ahh. Thank you. > Being fair to Paul, .... he showed me one someone had used a high wattage iron > on, and it had ruined some boards.... I don't think it's up to him what risks I take. Why should he take offense? It's an inanimate object. If I ruin it, can he not just charge me more to fix it? I know some repair people feel it's some kind of insult to be asked for self-help advice, and while I don't want to give free two-year courses in piano rebuilding, I have found that an occasional freely-given tip to a customer comes back to me many times over in customer loyalty, additional work, and by golly, personal job satisfaction. What does it cost me to tell them how to get a paper clip out from between the keys, saving them an expensive service call? You can't buy that kind of PR, and it feels good too. > Be sure that you turn your spare on once a week to charge the capacitor, it > acts as a holding voltage for the memory. If it uses all its charge, the > chip uses voltage from a little flat disc battery. If that goes flat you > lose the memory, and the SAT does not know what to do. Excellent advice, which I will implement. > Back to your problem, why did you not just leave the charger attached, and > use it like a plug in unit? Or was a cell shorted, and dragging the voltage > down? Both! One unit has a shorted cell, and the other will not hold a charge. It _will_ work on the charger, but I'm not always near an outlet (like on stage tomorrow afternoon). Thanks for the reply, Bob D
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