{"id":600,"date":"2009-11-01T17:53:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-01T22:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=600"},"modified":"2009-11-02T16:29:48","modified_gmt":"2009-11-02T21:29:48","slug":"i-hate-it-when-this-happens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/600\/i-hate-it-when-this-happens","title":{"rendered":"I Hate It When This Happens (Leaky Battery Blues)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='\/wp-content\/burst_battery_small.jpg' alt='Burst Macintosh Clock Battery' class=\"centered\"\/><br \/>\n<strong><em>VC&#038;G<\/em> Collecting Tip:<\/strong> Remove your old computer clock batteries.<\/p>\n<p><em>Right now.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m serious: do it.  Despite my regular battery purges (done to avoid just such a situation), I forgot to remove the Mac IIsi PRAM battery you see above because the computer was buried under a bunch of stuff.  The battery electrolyte leaked out and corroded everything it touched, ruining the logic board.  Sometimes you can recover from <a href=\"http:\/\/knol.google.com\/k\/floyd-hacker\/everything-you-need-to-know-about\/2mvr73jms5ou5\/2#\" target=\"_blank\">battery leaks<\/a> with extensive cleaning if the damage isn&#8217;t that bad.  In this case, it wasn&#8217;t worth the effort.  Bye, bye, IIsi.<\/p>\n<p>While you&#8217;re ditching the vintage clock batteries, do yourself a favor and remove the main power batteries from any laptops in your collection.  I typically store laptop batteries in a gallon zipper bag each.  Even if the batteries are dead\/bad (which they usually are), I save the plastic cases for re-use if I plan to rebuild the battery in the future.<\/p>\n<p>As a good rule of thumb, never keep batteries (no matter how new) in any electronic device for longer than a couple weeks of non-use.  Any longer, and you&#8217;re just playing Russian roulette with your gadgets.<\/p>\n<p>Almost all batteries leak eventually.  If your old ones haven&#8217;t leaked already, you&#8217;re very lucky.  Focus on alkaline and NiCd batteries first, because they leak the worst; lithium cells can leak as well (as seen above), but it&#8217;s less common overall.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of the type, if they&#8217;re old, remove them now &#8212; even if it requires clipping or desoldering &#8212; and spare yourself the leaky battery blues later on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VC&#038;G Collecting Tip: Remove your old computer clock batteries. Right now. I&#8217;m serious: do it. Despite my regular battery purges (done to avoid just such a situation), I forgot to remove the Mac IIsi PRAM battery you see above because the computer was buried under a bunch of stuff. The battery electrolyte leaked out and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,40,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-collecting","category-macintosh","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}