Re: questions and report on setting up UMAX Apus 2000 boxes

[Pierre-Philipp Braun <pbraun%nethence.com@localhost>]

Quoting John Klos 22/08/2013 02:51,
> I've replaced many such batteries in similar machines such as the Power 
> Mac 6200 and the Motorola Starmax. Because the battery is supposed to be 
> 3.6 volts, three AA batteries is a little high and two is a little low, 
> so I use a four battery holder and solder a diode across the space of 
> one of the batteries which usually drops the voltage about half a volt.

Thanks for this additional input.  You saying the target voltage should 
be 3.6 Volts and not 4.5 Volts ?  How do you know that ? (maybe it is 
written on the motherboard, I don't have access to the box right now, as 
I am 300 kilometers away from the lab)