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My iMac G3's will now hold time!

comda

comda

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Greetings!

I love my Imacs and i hated the fact that the source wanted a damn $20 for a clock battery. I wasnt going to spend $40 plus taxes on two old imac G3's. So I bought this 'AA' battery holder and soldered it to the prongs giving the imac a mere 3Volts. My Next issue was that i have to put the batteries somewhere and since the plastic cage wouldnt fit between the hard drive and the drive bay I pulled the entire hard drive CD rom caddie and placed it there. With my second G3 i did the same but the batteries seem to smell a little bit so im fearing somethings up. Never the less my Indigo Imac holds time!

MY imacs are:
Indigo
350Mhz PowerPc G3
512Mb RAm
16gb Fujitsu Hard drive
CD-Rom
10.3.9 Panther

The Tangerine
400Mhz
1gb Ram
80Gb WD hard drive
DVD-ROm
10.4.11 Tiger

What do you think guys? Just thought i'd share.
 

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poiihy

poiihy

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I made a battery pack of 2 AA batteries using wire and electrical tape. That was a little difficult but came out well. Then I put it in my beige G3. The only way I could've attached it is by wrapping the wires around the contacts, which I did, but the flickering power to the PRAM corrupted it and caused the machine to boot with a glass-breaking sound. Fixed by resetting PRAM.
I need to find a way to attach it better... I should probably get a battery holder.

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Why are each wire on the IDE ribbon separated?
 
comda

comda

macrumors 6502a
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Mar 15, 2011
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yeah so i tried to order the 2 pack and the total came to $35. yeah thats totally .48 cents?!
 
comda

comda

macrumors 6502a
Original poster
Mar 15, 2011
619
85
Again. I tried to ship from OWC.... Look at these prices. For a little battery! I just need 2 of them! Since my imacs are working i just want one for my Emac and Swap the Imacs AA batteries to my Beige G3 and put this battery in my imac! How hard can this GET?
 

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