[ARC5] Bias Battery

[Bry Carling]

Those ole biads batteries were really somethinjg else. Seems like they didn't corrode as fast in the old days.

I have seen some ancient bias batteries that still had voltage decades later. Two in fact, that I inherited in a junque box.
One of them read 3.1V and the other was about 1 volt. I thought about keeping the 3V one and said, NAH and tossed it. I had no idea people actually rebuilt them.

Sincerely - Bry AF4K

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Subject: Re: [ARC5] Bias Battery


I tore apart a bias batt from a GRC-9, hoping to recover the case, but it was too decayed.
Yes, it is 4.5 volt, but I don't recall it having distinct cells inside.



I bought from a China a 3 – watchcell battery holder and sent it to Richard Brunner on the

East Coast to try out. He describes it as the "elegant solution to replacing the GRC-9 bias".

I am planning to write up this and the dial light improvement options for VMARS in the U.K.

and maybe SRS in Netherlands, but right now other priorities come to the fore. That's

also why I outsourced the experimenting with these items. I bought the pieces I thought

would work out, and shipped them off to Richard to try out. Thanks, Richard !

-Hue
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