Standy by battery on Horstmann H37 XL Progammer?

I too had this problem and bought a new unit believing that the unit was non serviceable. After replacing I opened up the old unit to find it had a lithium battery soldered to the circuit board. It would be quite easy to remove the battery and solder the pieces onto a new battery and then put it back into the circuit board. Total cost would have been less than £5 rather than the £105 I paid for a new unit. I cannot understand how the manufacturer gets away with deliberately trying to make these non serviceable when they could have put a battery holder embedded in the plastic casing. They are still selling them like this when manufacturers are supposed to be green and make their products repairable!

Graham
July 2022

See https://geeknewscentral.com/2021/08/27/horstmann-channelplus-h27xl-controller-built-to-fail/

Stan
July 2022

You should easily be able to fit a replacement on the existing back plate.

See the reviews here:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B002NAGI2E

I had a similar issue with an ESI programmer. On the basis of having nothing to lose I took it apart and fitted a new lithium coin cell but I future proofed it by getting a suitable coin cell holder and using an ordinary coin cell without solder tags.

Simple enough but there again, I spent many years as an electronic test engineer.

Eehhg
October 2021