Re: [TenTec] OMNI 5 GOES DEAD ON 40

[geoffrey mendelson <geoffreymendelson@gmail.com>]

On 2/11/2015 2:59 PM, Kim Elmore wrote:
> I have: You can't access the proper leads externally. It's a PITA.
The ones I rebuilt were standard plastic covered SRAM chips with a 
battery soldered on top and then potted in a brittle plastic. I found 
that the best way to get to the battery was to chip away at the brittle 
plastic from the top corner with a pair of diagonal cutting pliers. Then 
you could cut the leads off the battery and solder a new one in it's 
place. I did not have access to batteries with welded leads, so I got 
pretty good at soldering wires to them. I used to leave them uncovered, 
but now I would cover them in Surgu.

Geoff.

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Geoffrey S. Mendelson 4X1GM/N3OWJ
Jerusalem Israel.