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[clive]

Hi all, this is my first post and hoping to get some advice.

I've just got myself a new machine ( club Italian Job )
It's all working fine but I wanted to move the battery from the main board as my last machine suffered from a leaking battery and destroyed the board.


Is it just a case of de-soldering the old battery off the board and attaching a new one with fly leads to it ?
What will happen when I switch the machine back on ? Will there be any errors that show up and do I need to reset anything like the note acceptor,  if so how?

Any advice would be most welcome as I don't want to potentially break the machine as it all works as it should.
Many thanks.

[aaamusements]

Some info here: http://www.fruit-emu...eaking-battery/

The new battery will need to charge up. The machine will play differently from a memory reset, until it gets back up to percentage.

Any errors should be temporary.

[clive]

Thanks for the fast reply.

Would I need to do anything to reset the machine or does taking the battery off do this automatically ?

[richy1976]

I would snip the battery off using a pair of side cutters or something, then you will have some pins to solder your wires to easier.

Taking the battery off will clear the memory.

Edited by richy1976, 18 November 2015 - 10:39 AM.

[clive]

Sounds like a good idea leaving the pins.

Would you happen to know if the note acceptor will be affected by a memory reset or am I worrying over nothing ?

[NickYerPesos]

obviously the machine would be turned off when you do this.. so generally it should be ok ifnyou resolder it back on within a few minutes. ive never had a problem.

[clive]

I'll give it a go over the weekend.

"If it isn't broke don't fix it" comes to mind but after my old machine had the battery leaking problem 

I would like to prevent it from happening on this one.

[NickYerPesos]

Prevention is better than cure

[clive]

Well I plucked up the courage and removed the battery today, put on some wires and connected it all back up.

When I switched it back on It gave a ram error which went off straight away. I then had to dump the hopper and refill it as it was showing as empty.

Once this was done I had to adjust the volume as this had also reset.

 

I then switched the machine off, left it for a while and when I switched it back on it's holding the memory fine.

Looks like it was a success and the note acceptor still works.

Thank you for all the advice.