How often do you change your 3 AA battery?your pin machine

[sommer]

 I have William high speed pin  need some input AorB? how often do you change your 3AA battery's?and what is the factory recommended? i hate to replace my battery's because lot of work to reset every thing back.!!
How often?
A. every_ _ months?_ _ years?or longer?

B. until it died and giving battery code?

i would pick ?B. i used to change one a year and then every 3-4 years! lol..i just did battery's today i checked the voltage and i still got 1.47V all 3 even reading..huh..next time I'll leave them it until then?     

[cfh]

Change the batteries with the game ON and you don't
loose any settings!

Also i remote mount all pinball batteries. this way if they
leak you ruin a $5 battery holder instead of a $300 CPU board.
And then changing the batteries is less of an issue.
the batteries are find as long as they are
A) not leaking
B) 1.2 volts each or greater.

A lot of people recommend changing the batteries
yearly, because leakage is the biggest issues. and
$2 worth of batteries changed every year is good
insurance. but i have so many games i let it go
a lot longer. And again, they are all remote mounted.

[Frank A]

I change all of my batteries in all 6 of my machines when I do the smoke alarm batteries with the time change in spring ahead and fall back. I have never had any issues. I change the batteries with the game on and never lose my settings as noted above. Does anyone have a Lethal Weapon 3 for sale ?

[Frank A]

Also... never just leave them in. They will eventually leak and ruin the board.

[sommer]

Thanks for all the input!!!

That is great info,i never thought about that leave the machine on while changing batteries!

remote mount batteries is a good idea! i might have one laying around??next project..!

i hardly seem battery leak around here? I Mean American made battery!!.lol.they're the best.! live in the west coast high desert very low humidity!! i forgot i left the batteries in my old TVs,VCRs,remote control for[edit]over10years, guess what no leaking on USA made battery but the one from china leaking bad the free one that came with the unit!!

[slotsteve]

lw 3   we  have 4 of them with good blue light   750  without or broken   725 we are in 24171 zip and have around 180 pins , 160 slots  50 japs slots
steve

[Frank A]

I am donating the game to an auction on August 31st to benefit teenage suicide prevention. Their website is www.sptsnj.org. Joe Pesci autographed a translite for me, so the game should bring a good buck for the cause. Last year the Waterworld I donated sold for $ 2,700 at the event. My 2 Pachi machines brought in another $ 450 dollars. How much shipped to NJ  08527 for a shopped machine with lamps and rubbers done with a topper and the gun handle ? PM me and I will give you additional information.

Frank