Originally Posted by DEAN  How long should the battery last? This is sounding like something that should be replaced before it takes a dump as a preventative measure, no? |
Best preventative is to backup all information in the machine regularly, and record the machine s/n on the disks, make two of each machine. You do get an alarm, if I understand correctly, on all these machines telling you that the battery voltage is getting low and to have the battery replaced. It took 5wks for my HFO to come change the battery in a TM-1 and I used the machine the whole time just clearing the alarm at power up restart. It wasn't until that new battery failed under warranty that I was extremely glad to have my backups. I had the alarm one day, called for service and the next day the machine had gone back to "initial software load" state the next morning and luckily the tech got there about an hour later as he was already schedualed.