Re: questions and report on setting up UMAX Apus 2000 boxes

[John Klos <john%ziaspace.com@localhost>]

> 2) Most of my Apus boxes have a dead nvram battery, I need to reenter 
> the special settings at each poweron or power cable plug. The 
> nvram/battery is a RAYONAC Computer Clock Battery 840 4.5 Volts 
> ALKALINE. Are there any successful reports on building a custom battery 
> with standard Alkaline batteries, or are these batteries still available 
> some place? The nvram/battery is some kind of a little monster, but the 
> PINs are pretty standard, just like PC Speaker PINs.

I've replaced many such batteries in similar machines such as the Power 
Mac 6200 and the Motorola Starmax. Because the battery is supposed to be 
3.6 volts, three AA batteries is a little high and two is a little low, so 
I use a four battery holder and solder a diode across the space of one of 
the batteries which usually drops the voltage about half a volt.

John