Oh, it
has got a jack for a 12V 3.5A negative tip charger. But that does not necessary stop the drainage if you do not plug it in..I personally think Jake's OB425 has a slightly leaky condensator somewhere, but often these are hard to spot. A swollen electrolyte is easy to spot, but other caps may be hard to analyze. And it has it's software - full Dos+Windows 3.1 +Word+Excel in PCMCIA XIP
(eXecute In Place
) 12MB rom memory. And it writes tp PCMCIA flash, not to internal memory at all
(except temporary
) so you lose nothing. But
(if not losing battery power
) it still is 'instant on'
And it came with a NiMH battery pack that can be charged inside. But somehow these run out after 26 years
. However, connecting two of the three charger clips will allow charging normal NiMh cells - except I have not yet tried that out
(too lazy to ohm that out yet
), I just recharge the four NiMH AA's externally. But there is no intelligence inside the battery pack, so replacing the inside NiMH's with four new
(short form
) ones will revive the
(chargeable
) pack. etc, etc
And Jake, bubble envelope is on the way.
Edited by michelbel 2022-01-16 8:55 PM