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| Click here to select a new forum. | | Macintosh II: sparks from battery pad? | Posted by: PotoMac on 2022-09-26 12:42:23
Recapping Mac II rev B board. Board not hooked up to anything. Removing both axial batteries. The B2 pads sparked occasionally when I applied flux and the iron with or without wick to remove the battery. The battery was corroded. I got the battery off with minimal sparking thankfully.
Is this normal? Is my startup circuit ruined? Or is this due to the corrosion & if I clean the corrosion out, putting the new axial battery on will be safe and non-sparky? | Posted by: joshc on 2022-09-26 14:47:54
Clip the leads of those old batteries off first before you touch them with a soldering iron - probably a reaction to the heat is my first guess.
Don't solder new batteries on, solder battery holders on instead and then you can add/remove batteries as you desire. It's not good to store Macs with their batteries in anyway. | | 1 |
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