Resmed A10 Motherboard Battery

[vk3hjq]

You can get a diamond cutoff wheel for your Dremel and cut off the old battery and use a separate battery with leads as John vk3hjq suggested. You can stick the new battery in place with hot melt glue or silicone RTV adhesive.

Battery comes with an Adhesive pad on it (no need to glue), why do you need to Dremel the old 1 off, these type of batteries have the tags spot welded on 1st, then they are soldered onto the circuit board, so just unsolder it.

          


By the looks of it, similar to this tag battery below.

   

John vk3hjq 

[scowell]

Battery comes with an Adhesive pad on it (no need to glue), why do you need to Dremel the old 1 off, these type of batteries have the tags spot welded on 1st, then they are soldered onto the circuit board, so just unsolder it.

  


By the looks of it, similar to this tag battery below.



John vk3hjq 

Sorry to resurrect this oldie, but I'm doing this now (got the case soaking in vinegar) and I want to replace that battery.  John, where did you get that picture?  It's the *exact* replacement!  Most of these solder-tail batteries have a 20mm spacing... my usual suspects (DigiKey and Mouser) don't have one with 18mm between the legs.  I can bend one and make it work... or I can try and get the exact one.  BTW the screen cover unclips and comes off, don't be skeert.

BION, I got off my butt and reverse-image searched the picture... turns out that Mouser *does* sell the part, as a Panasonic, which I much prefer!  Here's their link:

https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Pan...upRw%3D%3D

Crazy that it didn't come up under their search matrix for CR-2032... we are one-day-ground from them but they still drive me crazy sometimes.

Got the new motor from Amazon, going to have a backup AS10 now!  Anyone finds an easy way to clear the motor hours let me know... pretty sure this battery change won't do that.
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Steve KI5YG
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[Nightynite]

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[Lucid]

Hi, scowell

How did this battery replacement operation work out?

Which exact battery part did you end up using?  

(I'm slightly confused because of the multiple numbers and photos.  Also, I wouldn't be trying to do this myself, but I'd like to have a spare battery on hand just in case.)

Thanks!

[Crimson Nape]

It's the BR2032. This is a normal CR2032 that has 3 motherboard solder hold down tangs. You desolder the old battery to remove it, then solder in the new one.
https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Pan...upRw%3D%3D
- Red

[Lucid]

Wow, that was fast, Red -- thanks so much! 

[RNeil]

It is common practice to consider a battery that is expected to last 20 years to be permanent. Real time clock battery backups are usually designed for this. That is why they don't tell you about it or how to replace it.

[slabsi]

Hi, hoping someone can help. My machine is stuck on erasing data please wait when booting up. I’ve tried reflashing firmware but that doesn’t work. I’ve seen a suggestion about resetting/shorting the RTC battery which I want to try before buying a replacement machine, does anyone know how to do this please?

[canelo]

Hello I changedthe battery it had a lot of corrosion and seemed like it spill the internal chemical. However the RTC won't hold time, does anybody know which one is the RTC chip I want to check traces or even capacitorthat might be shorted