[Elecraft] OT: soldering leads to coin cell batteries

[John Young]

I salvage the holders from old computer mother boards.  Saves risking
explosion of the coin cell

73  John

-- 
John D Young
WA8KNE
ETC USN retired

On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Ken Alexander <k.alexander at rogers.com>wrote:

>
> Hi John,
>
> If the leads on the existing cells are thin metal strips then they probably
> won't come off with a soldering iron.  They're usually welded on during the
> manufacturing process.
>
> You might try Mouser or Digi-Key to see if you can find a battery holder it
> would slip into.  The holder would have leads that are easy to connect to.
>
> 73,
>
> Ken Alexander
> VE3HLS
>
>
> --- On Sat, 12/19/09, John Ferguson <jferg977 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > From: John Ferguson <jferg977 at yahoo.com>
> > Subject: [Elecraft] OT: soldering leads to coin cell batteries
> > To: elecraft at mailman.qth..net
> > Date: Saturday, December 19, 2009, 2:35 PM
> > Does anyone here have experience
> > soldering leads to coin cell batteries?
> > My Compaq Armada M300 needs a new cmos battery.  the
> > present one is a 2032 with 2 leads and a molex plug.
> >
> > my scheme is to put the needle point on my trusty WTCP,
> > remove the leads from the old battery, sand them and tin
> > them and using the flux I used for the smt project, quickly
> > as in QUICKLY touch the point to the leads.
> >
> > Why not?
> >
> > AI4TO  John Ferguson m/v arcadian
> >
> >
> >
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