kyodai
Experienced Member
Well today i messed with one of my old Fujitsu INTERTOP Model 10. Was nearly getting crazy since it wouldn't save changes to BIOS, was back on default on every reboot.
So i opened up that little beast and turns out the CMOS battery can't be saved - already started getting these little crystals that form when battery acid leaked and dried again.
Checked the internet and seems this type ("GS SAFT 3GF20") kinda went out of fashion and disappeared around the end of the 1990s...
So i have been looking for a replacement, searching for 3.6V 20mAh on ebay... Seems these tiny Nickel cadmium batteries got out of fashion completely. There are however similar size Ni-MH ones.
Question - is it save to replace it by a Ni-MH battery? I don't know so much about batteries but i remember Ni-Cd have a bit different characteristics than Ni-MH. So just wanna hear that it's save and they will not catch fire or explode because they have different charging characteristics or anything.
Any comments welcome.
So i opened up that little beast and turns out the CMOS battery can't be saved - already started getting these little crystals that form when battery acid leaked and dried again.
Checked the internet and seems this type ("GS SAFT 3GF20") kinda went out of fashion and disappeared around the end of the 1990s...
So i have been looking for a replacement, searching for 3.6V 20mAh on ebay... Seems these tiny Nickel cadmium batteries got out of fashion completely. There are however similar size Ni-MH ones.
Question - is it save to replace it by a Ni-MH battery? I don't know so much about batteries but i remember Ni-Cd have a bit different characteristics than Ni-MH. So just wanna hear that it's save and they will not catch fire or explode because they have different charging characteristics or anything.
Any comments welcome.