Commodore A501 RAM Expansion Battery Damage Restoration

In this video, I try to resurrect my original A501 RAM Expansion that I used in my Amiga 500 back in the day. Repairing some battery damage and modding the charging circuit to be able to use a standard CR2032 coin cell as a replacement for the original Varta barrel of doom.

Here's the whole Amiga 500 Setup Recreation Series:
Part 1 (The 1084 Monitor):    • Recreating my Amiga 500 Setup Episode...  
Part 2 (The Amiga):    • Recreating my Amiga 500 Setup Episode...  
Part 3 (Bits & Pieces):    • Recreating my Amiga 500 Setup Episode...  
Part 4 (Amiga Repair):    • Recreating my Amiga 500 Setup Episode...  
Part 5 (The Internal Disk Drive):    • Recreating my Amiga 500 Setup Episode...  
Part 5a (The RAM Expansion):    • Commodore A501 RAM Expansion Battery ...  
Part 6 (Status Update):    • Recreating my Amiga 500 Setup Episode...  

The track used for the soldering/timelapse portions of the video is called "Fride" and was kindly provided by Focus 10 aka Øystein Hansen. Thank you! Check out more of his work here:   / user-993847645  

Focus 10's tune "8-bit wannabe" is now also available as a single from CDBaby/iTunes/Spotify: https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/focus101

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