Re: 4400/200 won't turn on?

[David Riley <fraveydank%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Sep 6, 2021, at 2:26 PM, Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost> wrote:
> 
> It took a little doing, but I eventually found the battery.  In the
> case of my machine, it's a small black plastic near-cube, connected to
> two pins of a four-pin connector (which has only three pins actually
> populated).

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> In the immediate term, I'll probably go with the capacitor and
> resistors.  If I were confident I could find one easily, I'd get a
> small battery holder designed for three AAA cells or some such and use
> that.  There's plenty of physical space to mount such a thing.

That works, though there are companies that manufacture the (otherwise discontinued) pack model from modern cells.  That should last you quite a few years.  I hate those packs, though.  Three AAAs should do the trick nicely, I've seen that done before.


- Dave