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From: daly@cgull..westford.ccur.com (Patrick Daly)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: PC Batteries
Message-ID: <12867@masscomp.ccur.com>
Date: 20 Feb 90 16:52:18 GMT
References: <1060@nems.dt.navy.mil>
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In article <1060@nems.dt.navy.mil> scherer@dtrc.dt.navy.mil (Doug Scherer) writes:
>    If a battery is soldered on an AT system board and needs it to be replaced
>do you have to unsolder it before connecting an external battery. Also
>is it possible to see the difference in appearance between a NICAD and
>Lithium battery.

My old PC supposedly had a Nicad somewhere on the motherboard that requires
the system to be running for some length of time on a somewhat regular
basis (how's that for being specific ;-> ) to keep it charged up.

I never bothered to locate it since the system used an external lithium battery
(which was selected by means of a jumper).  The lithium was velcroed to the
case and had a 2 wire connector to connect it to the mother board.

The old lithium battery was blank, but the replacement I put in had
clear markings as to what it was.