----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Goodale" <rrg@unlv.edu> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 6:00 PM Subject: Re: Accutuner battery > Go to your local electronic component store, (check the yellow pages). > Radio Shack has become in my opinion a real rinkydink consumer wannabe > place. They used to sell real raw components with a huge respectable > selection. Now they have very few components and lots of stupid toys > for kids and cell phones. Besides I resent them asking for my name and > phone number just to buy batteries. They don't ask my name anymore because when they did in the past I always said "Johnny Cash" BTW isn't Johnny cash money you find in the toilet? Carl Meyer Assoc. PTG Santa Clara, California cmpiano@attbi.com > What you want is four AA size rechargeable nickel-cadium batteries. > They are available for project application use which includes soldering > tabs on each end. Bundle them together flat side by side like this: = > =. Then solder the tabs together between them to make the connection. > Use a large appropriate sized piece of shrink tubing over the whole > package to make a nice tidy unit, (also available at an electronic > supply store). Some PVCE glue will hold it all nicely to the inside of > the case. > > The memory and programing are stored via a small button battery on the > main board somewhat like a bios battery in a computer. Disconnecting > the main batteries will not delete your saved tunings. > > Rob Goodale, RPT > Las Vegas, NV > > > > Pianotoone@AOL.COM wrote: > > >My SAT battery seems to be on the way out. I remember reading in the list > >about buying a replacement at Radio Shack. I don't have any problem with the > >electronics of installation but was wondering if there is a convenient way of > >avoiding losing all the stored tunings I have. > > > >Thanks > > > >Dick Day > >Marshall MI > > > >
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