[Shotimes] Re: Battery Swap

[MonsieurBoo@aol.com]

A couple days ago I posted about plugging a spare battery into the lighter 
socket before changing the battery, so I can keep feeding juice to the puter and 
not have to re-train it after hooking up the new battery.  There was a wide 
range of comments all the way from "just swap it right on out, when the idle 
settles down it's ready to go", to "don't deviate from the manual, and even then 
it might not be 100% done relearning yet".   That kinda makes me want to try 
this trick even more!

Seriously, the center of the lighter socket is (+) and the shell is (-).  I 
made a matching-polarity cable with battery clips on one end and a Radio Shack 
male lighter plug on the other (it even has a built-in power LED!)  So if I 
hook up a spare battery, it should be in parallel and then hopefully I could 
pull out the old battery under the hood and swap in the new one while feeding a 
few 12v milliamps to the puter to keep it from suffering a memory loss.

I don't wanna do something stupid like deep fry my silicon chips, hard to 
imagine that nobody's tried this and that makes me wonder if I'm missing 
something horrible and costly that's really obvious to the rest of y'all.  TIA,

Mark LaBarre
Rockville, MD
94 ATX 125K 11.5v