Re: Radionics 5700: lithium batteries

[Nomen Nescio <nobody@xxxxxxxxx>]

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.