Yes, please. TIA
On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 12:27 AM Brian K. White <b.kenyo...@gmail.com> wrote: > OK so Sean got his own, so, Mike & Gary? > > I'll throw in some jst connectors so if you want you can take a stab at > making the pack disconnectable too for storage and for future > replacement without any more soldering. I thought it might be good to be > able to store the thing with the battery disconnected while the bus pins > are buried in conductive antistatic foam. Plus just future owners won't > have to keep resoldering the pcb for future batter changes. > > I don't know if it will really fit, and I didn't think of it until I > already soldered mine. But I have a bunch of these connectors and I > tried a dummy test fit just sticking the empty connector housings in a > cavity next to the molex socket and then putting the ram board back, and > it looks like it should actually fit with the wires in theory. > > Here is the empty connector housings (red thing), both male & female > connected the way they would be. It's hard to see from stright above > like this but the depth is low enough that the pcb does install and lay > right over top of the connectors. It looks like there is just room for > the wires to snake out & back. > https://photos.app.goo.gl/gVjRYPRcKmriWn29A > > > I was surprised that definitely the battery is needed for more than just > holding the ram contents alive during standby. When I tried running with > the unit installed with no battery connected (no dead battery pulling > the rails down), even with the pcb fully cleaned in my ultrasonic and > dried, it *barely* worked. It usually crashed the machine any time I > tried to run the Bank# menu enries. The relay would click and the screen > would die and that's it, have to cold reset to get a menu again. > > And since installing the new pack, it seems to work perfect with no > relay clicks and no main menu crashes or even appearing to be trying > hard or anything. > > -- > bkw > > > On 2/16/23 23:45, Mike Stein wrote: > > Yeah, I'm sure surprised by how many of us have come out of the woodwork > ;-) > > > > m > > > > On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 11:01 PM Sean O’Brien <nolan...@fisher25.ca > > <mailto:nolan...@fisher25.ca>> wrote: > > > > Thanks Gary! But no, I’ll soon have a surplus of them. So if you or > > anyone else needs one… just ask. :D (Seems like there are more of > > these expansion banks still out there than I’d have thought. ) > > > > Sean > > Sent from my iPhone > > > > > On Feb 16, 2023, at 11:27 PM, Gary Weber <g...@web8201.com > > <mailto:g...@web8201.com>> wrote: > > > > > > But you need it, don't you Sean? > > > I just visited the eBay link and they're still selling them; I > > have no problem ordering one there. > > > > > > > -- > bkw > >
