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Re: [TenTec] Orion II battery replacement

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Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion II battery replacement
From: Barry N1EU <barry.n1eu@gmail.com>
Reply-to: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2018 21:10:44 +0000
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some folks change the Orion battery with rig powered on and no config info
is lost

Barry N1EU

On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 8:27 PM, Stuart Rohre <Rohre@arlut.utexas.edu>
wrote:

> If you are changing any back up rig battery, it is good to make up a jig
> with an identical new battery, and bridge its clip leads across the memory
> battery connection points.
>
> When proceeding to change the old battery, remove it carefully to not
> short the new battery and mess up your saved info.
>
> Some instrumentation is designed to let you quickly pull out a battery,
> even main power, and swap in a new battery, without loosing any stored
> items.  But there is no easy way to tell that ahead of a swap.
>
> Stuart Rohre
> K5KVH
>
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