Agreed.
I've had more problems with leaking alkaline AA cells so I remove those when I
won't be using the computer for a while; it's always a pleasant surprise to
come back months later, put in fresh AAs and be right back where you were.
BTW, unless you already replaced them the NiCds lasted more like 30 years, not
just 20.
m
----- Original Message -----
From: John R. Hogerhuis
To: m...@bitchin100.com
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2018 2:07 PM
Subject: Re: [M100] supercap
On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 10:53 AM, Brian White <bw.al...@gmail.com> wrote:
If you aren't going to use a solid state cap that can't ever leak a
corrosive substance onto the board, then why trade a sleep time of months for a
sleep time of days?
Yep.
Nothing lasts forever... replace with a NiCd and you get another 20 years.
The system works as we love it, as designed. Lasts for 20 more years or, more
likely, fails for some other reason.
Probably some other leaky cap :-)
And out 20 years, you have to wonder if you're going to be beyond caring.
IMO the NiCd was a fantastic design decision. I have plenty of other vintage
RAM filesystem based devices that use caps or coin cells. They all suck
compared to the 100/102/200 in large part due to the weaknesses of those memory
backup systems.
-- John.
