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Hi Carl, sorry for not posting for ages - it took me a while to get hold of all the soldering equipment and so on, and then I was really busy for a few weeks. I cleaned the board again and cleaned the terminals. The resistance between the two points you described is much lower after cleaning the ter...

Hi Carl, are these the two points you mean? I get about 200 ohms, which seems rather high. The screen didn't fade particularly gradually. A few random LCD segments lit up and then it faded pretty abruptly. The MAX1044 wasn't very near where the battery leaked and appears undamaged, could the problem...

S1030899c.jpg Hi Carl, many thanks for your swift response. I'm in the UK and PM3s are about £200 (~400NZD) here, so I'd prefer not to write off my PM2 just yet if it's at all salvageable. I've attached the best photo I was able to get of the board if that helps. I only have a little bit of experie...

Hi, hoping someone can help me with my PM2. The batteries leaked in it in a manner very similar to this http://www.c2forum.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=11589 which judging by other posts on the forum is a very common problem. Following the advice elsewhere on the forum, I very carefully removed the batt...