Sheesh! I rescued 5 NUCs. Four had bad batteries.
>As they are annoyingly compact, I figured I'd look for
>a teardown before I dug into them.
>
>Sure 'nuff, you ave to take the entire device apart
>to access the battery. Which is then TAPED to the
>underside of the cooler.
>
>OK, fine. It's not in a battery holder (to save space)
>but, rather, on pigtails with a 2 pin connector.
>
>"Intel does not provide battery replacements."
>
>Understandable. You've got bigger issues to screw up!
>
>"CR2032 batteries with a wire and Molex connector may
>not be locally available. To find a replacement, search
>the Internet for CR2032 with wire or CR2032 with Molex
>connector and purchase through an online retailer."
>
>Wow! How low they have fallen.
>
>Of course, this sort of search criteria doesn't guarantee
>anything other than "CR2032" and "connector". But, hey,
>it's worth a try!
>
>Batteries arrived (Amazon). Connectors are pinned exactly
>backwards! Must be one of those AC/DC batteries that
>automatically adjusts polarity based on need... yeah, right.
>
>How many folks will gleefully plug in the connector (it is
>keyed to mate only one way) and fail to observe the reversed
>red/black leads?
>
>(sigh) "Not my problem!"
Tektronix made a sampling plugin that used soldered-in coin cell batteries to back-bias the sampling diodes. 7S14 maybe?