Hello Matrix-People,

If battery life ends on a synth I always replace the original battery with   a holder. It simply is the same amount of work and makes future replaments easy. Hold in mind that the battery life is very dependend of the synth / gear model. E.g. my Motu Timepiece(s) need a new one every two years, others last about 12 years (Korg Z1) and so on. On the Matrix it is easy enough and feels good to have memory working properly.
A standard holder like below fits perfectly.
A helpful page on different synth is this one:

Internal Battery & Reset Resource Page

			Internal Battery & Reset Resource Page Internal battery & Reset resource page Please add info including : (PM me if any info is wrong or needs updating) 1) Model of Synth: 2) Battery
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Best wishes
Marcus

---In oberheim@yahoogroups.com , <danforcz@...> wrote :

Hi, Flavio,

this can be valid argument, because it's quite possible the quality of older products was better than the recent Chinese cheap imitations :-) But I haven't any detailed and deeper information concerning this - the answer can be found after another few years of using it...

From this point of view it can be good idea to use battery holder - the next battery exchange will be easy.

If I understand well the backup battery is loaded a little bit (if it's technically possible) when the instrument is switched on, and RAM chips don't need much current to keep their contents - probably that's the main reason why battery can last so long time.  

Daniel Forro

On Jun 7, 2016, at 10:43 PM, Boniforti Flavio boniforti.f@... [oberheim] wrote:

Hi Daniel,

your thoughts make sense. But isn't it that the new CR2032-like batteries are less prone to battery leakage, and therefore preferred when desoldering old/used batteries I'm not sure this is true, it's a simple question... ;-)

F.