Re: Radionics 5700: lithium batteries

["Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Power up the spare one in the shop...solder in a new battery while it's
powered up...and pray?

I'm such an idiot..once I changed a lithium on an older DMP. I thought I was
supposed to power it down first...duh...pretty dumb.



"Nomen Nescio" <nobody@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:51e8650a863200c9650ec5c24663c91e@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Talking about dumbass ideas from Radionics:
>
> Soldered-in lithium batteries.
>
> When the panel loses both AC and battery power, if the lithium battery is
> dead you cannot get into the panel with a programmer.  You have to send it
> back to the factory for a new battery.  So if you have a spare 7212 on the
> shelf that's been sitting for a few years, odds are you won't be able to
> program it when you need it.  Same thing if you have an older panel out in
> the field that loses both AC and battery:  the programming is gone, and
> you
> can't reprogram that panel.
>
> X. Boschman, if you know a workaround for this, you'd be performing a
> public service by telling us about it.
>
>