gdjacobs wrote:
Lithium rechargeable cells are quite different to the original NiCd or NiMH cells included in most older boards. They have a very different charging profile and are more volatile if charged improperly. Feel free to do as you wish, but understand using them for an application where they weren't intended entails some risk.
What exactly are the risks? Through the years, I have used a rechargeable lithium on some of my boards. They work as such, and they never get warm. That said, I never turn on a vintage computer, more than some 2 hours.
The type I use, are this one.
I can see it would pose a potential risk, if I have the computer turned on for an 48 hour gaming session, yet I am too old to go that long without sleep, and I dont know anyone in real life that are interrested in an old school gaming/computer weekend, like the ones I attended before networking was a thing to have on a computer in private. (Between 1988 and 1992).
Right now, I only have one computer left, that has such a battery I linked to. And I soldered it on the motherboard around 6 to 8 months ago. Still works, never gets warm and I have only used the machine a couple of times and no more than 30 minutes each time.
Don't eat stuff off a 15 year old never cleaned cpu cooler.
Those cakes make you sick....
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