inotarobot
Veteran Member
Well as some of you know we here in Melbourne Australia are still in yet another Covid-19 lockdown; so I am trying to tidy up and down size my collection.
Also I am Powering up anything that has not been powered for over 6 months, plus I got out my battery log and am checking all gear that has batteries installed. Anything that I don't use on a semi-regular basis (6 months or less) does NOT get stored with batteries in it.
What with stress of last year I missed doing this check, that I normally do twice a year at same time I change batteries in all our Smoke Detectors.
So you can guess from the Heading I have found some AA size batteries that have failed and leaked.
These cells were Brand New 18 months ago.
Amazingly one type leaked very badly..yet the other type of same brand did not.
These batteries power the real time clock.
As you can see they are in a top of the Main Case and are accessible by lifting the monitor off,
Sadly there is corrosion that I will need to repair. For now I have cleaned of as best I could and covered the terminals in Vaseline, and not put any batteries in for now/
Also I am Powering up anything that has not been powered for over 6 months, plus I got out my battery log and am checking all gear that has batteries installed. Anything that I don't use on a semi-regular basis (6 months or less) does NOT get stored with batteries in it.
What with stress of last year I missed doing this check, that I normally do twice a year at same time I change batteries in all our Smoke Detectors.
So you can guess from the Heading I have found some AA size batteries that have failed and leaked.
These cells were Brand New 18 months ago.
Amazingly one type leaked very badly..yet the other type of same brand did not.
These batteries power the real time clock.
As you can see they are in a top of the Main Case and are accessible by lifting the monitor off,
Sadly there is corrosion that I will need to repair. For now I have cleaned of as best I could and covered the terminals in Vaseline, and not put any batteries in for now/
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