Another Question on Codar Clock

From: Sellam Ismail <dastar_at_ncal.verio.com>
Date: Sun Aug 22 13:21:53 1999

On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Zane H. Healy wrote:

> The Codar Clock board has a jumper to turn the battery power on and off for
> the board. What good is this? Is this just a way to save the battery life
> when the board isn't in a system?
>
> Is the board any good without the batteries? It doesn't seem to be, but...

Well, on the Lisa, there is a switch to turn off the onboard batteries,
because if you don't then over time they leak out all over the backplane
and can cause damage (I've seen it a few times). On the machines where
the switch has been turned off you don't see this happening.

So perhaps these jumpers server the same purpose?

Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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