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12 December 2010, 15:39
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Amiga 500 Plus Surgery
Here are some pictures of my new Amiga 500 Plus undergoing battery removal surgery. I am pleased to say the operation was a success and the Amiga is now safe from evil battery leakage
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12 December 2010, 15:44
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Great looking pictures Reptile..... If I could see any
 EDIT: Ahh! I see, you're doing a double post Last edited by DH; 12 December 2010 at 15:52. |
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12 December 2010, 15:46
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 The Amiga before undergoing surgery [IMG]  No signs so far    OK, here goes nothing... Fingers crossed!   Thankfully there are no signs of severe leakage.    Upon closer inspection, there are signs of early leakage, so better to be safe than sorry, I proceed to remove the battery I removed it by simply moving the battery lengthways gently, back and forth, until it was removed from the PCB. This only took a few minutes, then I cleaned what little traces were remaining from the board using a drip of vinegar and a cotton bud.   The board is now nice and clean, after reseating a few capacitors and checking all the chips are secure I start putting her back together.   The operation was a success and my Amiga is now up and running again, and I can relax [until my memory upgrade arrives..!]! 
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12 December 2010, 19:45
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Nice!
My isn't technology great! - Seeing the lightweight LCD on top of the A500 brings back memories of my CRT monitor slowly crushing the life out of my poor A500! Last edited by DDNI; 12 December 2010 at 22:54. |
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12 December 2010, 22:50
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I see a furry mess on the end of that battery just peeping out - good work it looks like you caught it just in time.
To be honest people should be whipping out original NiCads even if they're not leaking - they will go for sure! |
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13 December 2010, 18:06
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Yes I'm glad there was no serious leakage, my heart was certainly pumping when I was removing the heat shield!
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13 December 2010, 18:10
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12 years after I last owned a classic Amiga and 15 years or so after I departed with my A500+, and I can still tell from a glance exactly which chips are where in the "overview" picture of the motherboard without peeking at the labels... Clearly my A500+ spent far too much time bare naked...
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15 December 2010, 12:32
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Precious & fragile things
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My A500 had one memory chip socketted so I could use it as a tester for memory chips. |
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18 December 2010, 14:02
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I've noticed my setup is corrupting my disks, the speaker of the TV Monitor being too close to the disk drives :-( So I will have to do some adjusting, I've ordered a stand which will increase the distance and place a barrier.
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