Battery Replacement and Cleaning Guide

channelmaniac

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The 6 slot and the 4 slot use the same battery - looks like a stack of coins.

The problem is that you can use a standard PC looking barrel-on-its-side type battery to replace it on the 4 slot but NOT on the 6 slot. The reason is the 4 slot top board has no IC pins sticking down over the area of the battery so that replacement battery just barely fits. With the 6 slot top board there are pins sticking down from the ICs above and that will cause a short circuit when they pierce the insulation on the battery.

RJ
 
iammike

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gotcha... so a bottom-mount on a 6-slot will work just fine.

thanks!
 
loegan43

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Great guide, thanks for the effort you put into it. I'm sure others, as well as myself will find this very useful.
 
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cheers

i finally got up the nerve to do this today, and thanks to your guide things went swimmingly well. thanks to you and all the other guys here who help the unenlightened such as i.

cheers,
 
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raindog151 said:
i finally got up the nerve to do this today, and thanks to your guide things went swimmingly well. thanks to you and all the other guys here who help the unenlightened such as i.

cheers,
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hey! a local! glad to hear it went well! also glad to hear the guide has been useful!
 
XYXZYZ

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The link is dead... is this information anywhere else?

Or, is there more to it than "get a 3.6V rechargeable phone battery and solder + to + and - to - on the MVS board"?
 
iammike

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XYXZYZ said:
The link is dead... is this information anywhere else?

Or, is there more to it than "get a 3.6V rechargeable phone battery and solder + to + and - to - on the MVS board"?
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My provider is moving hosts right now... should only be down a few hours.

It is that simple assuming you have a board that uses a 3.6V.
 
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This is the guild I used this past weekend for my 6 sloter !

wired from the buttom with about 1.5 feet of wire and mounted to my control panel on the inside ! best part was the cordles phone battery was on sale at Radio shack !

Thankz !
 
iammike

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TheAvatar said:
This is the guild I used this past weekend for my 6 sloter !

wired from the buttom with about 1.5 feet of wire and mounted to my control panel on the inside ! best part was the cordles phone battery was on sale at Radio shack !

Thankz !
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:buttrock:
 
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