Dallas clock battery

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Thursday 29 December 2005 03:41 am, Doc Shipley wrote:
>    ISTR somebody recently mentioned soldering battery leads to two legs
> of a Dallas CMOS clock chip.  Does that ring any bells?
>
>    I'm fiddling with a Compaq SLT/286 whose Dallas module is very dead.
>   I'd like to fix it.

Speaking of which,  I have one of those modules that I pulled off some board 
that was otherwise trashed.  Is there any easy way to tell what condition the 
battery is in?

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