need source for external CMOS holder

[jakkwb]

Howdy folks,

I am in need of an external CMOS coin battery holder for a desktop. Bare wires would be fine, then I can put ends on it. This system has a soldered in battery, and it is very dead.

I looked for a while, but these are apparently kind of rare.

Maybe someone out there has a good source, or an alternate way of doing it. (I don't solder (yet)).

Thanks,

A

[Ahcoraj]

solidering is easy, and about the only way youre gonna get good contact. A trip to your local radio shack shold get you both a kit and the wire to do it . in the past i've solidered bare wires to the top of the battery, but then i started de-solidering the sockets from dead motherboards and just hanging them inside the case from the wires, which were sloidered to the bits of wire left from cutting out the old dead one. ...however i havent done either in years, how old is a comp.that has a hardwired cmos battery......

[Sly]

Found this site, coin battery holders

Might be what you are looking for.

[Platypus]

how old is a comp.that has a hardwired cmos battery......

Likely to be quite old...

Some reasonably recent designs might have a long-life (eg 5 to 7 year) lithium battery soldered in place. But often soldered-in batteries were rechargeable - be careful jakkwb, if you replace a rechargeable backup battery with a non rechargeable one, you'll damage the new battery.

Two alkaline AA or AAA batteries in a plastic holder you can get from Radio Shack etc can be quite successful. Since there's only a tiny current draw, alkaline batteries can last their effective shelf life, typically 7 years.