T60 owners - watch out for RTC dying

[JonP01]

Hi all,

Most T60 players appear to have been manufactured early in 2007 - at least the ones I own appear to have been. The device includes a tiny (6mm diameter) 3.3 volt battery on the mainboard in order to maintain the RTC (real time clock) when the unit is both powered down and does not have a main battery inserted.

By now, many of these T60 units will have button batteries that are running quite low on voltage. I measured 2.5 volts on one of mine and only 1.58 volts on another.

So this is just a "warning" that quite soon your RTC might no longer keep time between battery changes, unles you are prepared to pull out the mainboard and solder in a new battery (which I don't recommend because i think the risks outweigh the benefits).

The good news is that I have thoroughly tested a T60 unit with the button battery completely removed and it worked perfectly, suffering absolutely no ills effects whatsoever, apart from losing the time between battery changes (but it kept all custom settings such as volume, display, EQ, etc).

[chexxy3835]

Thanks for that heads up, I was curious how the clock kept running on this player as previous players did not have a active time clock. Good to know. Mine has not died yet, but I expect it will be soon.

-- Chex in Montreal