CPS 2 battery swap issue....no legs on battery.

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1/2 AA battery found locally, lithium, correct 3.6 voltage.

Has no legs.

Will it be f'ed if I try to solder legs/wire to it? I'm not going to do anything crazy like install a keystone holder...if needed I'll just take it back and order the ones with legs, but got them locally for 6$ each...pretty good price. =\
 
Yeah, either keystone it or get the legged battery.

Even if you did successfully solder legs onto the battery, it's not worth worrying about it. If the board gets jerked around and it comes off, you'd be screwed. I think I paid $8 per battery off amazon on 2010 when I replaced all mine. Totally worth it.
 
Do you have a Battery Giant, or Battery Plus near you? They will weld legs on batteries for you, I've had them do it on a batttery I bought from the one. Battery Giant welded them on for me for free too.

I've also soldered leads to batteries before. If you do it quickly, and use flux, you will be fine.
 
Do you have a Battery Giant, or Battery Plus near you? They will weld legs on batteries for you, I've had them do it on a batttery I bought from the one. Battery Giant welded them on for me for free too.

I've also soldered leads to batteries before. If you do it quickly, and use flux, you will be fine.

I got it from Batteries Plus...told the guy the ones that you can buy from arcade supplies have legs on them. He just looked at me kind of stupid after I showed him a picture.

*sigh*

I hate this damn state.
 
Yeah, don't try to solder wires or legs to it. The battery is very hard to solder to, because it's so large that the heat sinks away from it quickly. And, if you heat it to the point where the solder will stick, the battery will explode.

Get a battery that already has legs on it, or have some spot welded on. Any battery shop can do that for you.

-Ian
 
Take it back and order the ones with legs. There is a chance the battery will explode if you try to solder leads to it.

M-w is correct.

Most CPS-2 games have a RED 1/2 AA 3.6V 1,100Ah Maxell ER3 battery. (ER Lithium Thionyl Chloride Battery page. http://biz.maxell.com/products/industrial/battery/er/index.html) These little ER batteries have AXIAL leads on them.

As said above, your only replacement options are a KESTONE battery holder and a re[placement battery without AXIAL leads OR a replacement battery with AXIAL leads.In sum, AXIAL batteries are better--few parts. Mouser stocks these replacement battery parts; but, as usual, commercial shipping rates on small orders suck. So, it's best to try and find these parts at your local parts store.
 
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I used to keystone them but I wont anymore. You just double the number of connections that can lose contact somehow. Not to mention that if you jar it real good it could pop the battery out.
 
I have the KEYSTONE battery holders if you want to go that way.
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Definitely not going the keystone route...way above my solder experience, and as stated many places before, I don't like the extra points of failure. Honestly, once I get back in a better financial situation, I will probably just see what it takes to get them phoenixed. I don't give a rat's arse about if they're running modified code to get around the copy protection or not...


So I guess if someone wants "legit" boards and has some phoenixed ones they'd like to swap, lemme know. If anyone's interested in that I'll see which all boards have batteries in them lol.
 
Dude, I'd just buy the $8 battery with legs on it and solder it on, it takes literally 10 minute including the time to heat the iron. You could buy phoenixed but in some cases you've doubled the cost of the board, and I've never seen someone try to swap a phoenixed board for the volatile version. lol

I think if you averaged all my CPS2 boards out that I've bought I'm in the $50 range per board, even if I owned a game for 20 years and changed the batteries every 4, it wouldn't cost what the phoenix would. Razoola, the Phoenix godfather used to do them for like 30euro - what's that $60 US? Probably doesn't include shipping back and forth - I'm just saying personally - fuck it, buy the batteries.
 
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I was looking into phoenix'ing my board I had, and came up with a company that will do it for $30 and they will ship new ones to you and you get credit back if you send them your used ones. Not sure if I can say business in here but let me know and I will pm you info. Or someone tell me if we can refer for something like this.
 
Not really concenered about the soldering... I'm a very mediocre solderer but I can get things done, lol. I repaired my pinball power supply board last night...guess we'll find out how mediocre my PCB soldering really is. :) I just didn't want to take any unnecessary risks and have a battery explode in my face..figured I'd at least ask before I did something stupid. :p

I'm gonna take those other batts back and get the right ones. Once I get the batts replaced and verify everything's working, then I'll decide what to do with them, lol.
 
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