Yep. We'll done I had a single board Z80 forth computer that died about 8 years after I built it because one of those NiCads leaked. It only had ribbed traces. Not full solder resist. So it had no chance.
I automatically remove them from anything that comes my way before they kill it. Supercapacitors are a great replacement. Doug On 10 Jan. 2018 6:21 pm, "Brian White" <bw.al...@gmail.com> wrote: > Nice catching it just before instead of just after. Someone 20 more years > from now thanks you. Hell maybe they will have access to an archive of this > list and actually know where it came from and who to thank literally. :) > > On Jan 9, 2018 10:52 PM, "Kevin Becker" <ke...@kevinbecker.org> wrote: > >> I picked up my M102 off Craigslist probably around 8 or 9 years ago. At >> that time, I found club100 and had fun messing around with it for a while >> until it eventually found a home sitting on a shelf running a digital clock >> program, which it has done reliably for many years. A few months ago I've >> pulled it down and started playing around with it again and started lurking >> on this list. I've looked at the nicad/supercap discussions with mild >> interest but it wasn't a problem I had so I mostly didn't care too much. >> >> Someone recently mentioned the idea that nicads were becoming hard to >> find and I figured it might be a good idea to finally proactively replace >> mine. I ordered a two pack off ebay and swapped mine out today. It was >> starting to show very minor signs of corrosion. Not enough to reach the >> motherboard yet but I'm glad I replaced it when I did. So I just wanted to >> say thanks for the info and the inspiration to do some proactive >> maintenance on my vintage computer before it became a problem. >> >>
