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Michael Black[_3_] Michael Black[_3_] is offline
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Default Casio Wave Ceptor radio controlled watch, WR50M

On Sun, 17 Jun 2018, N_Cook wrote:

On 26/03/2018 08:31, N_Cook wrote:
2 weeks on and no problem, passed through to daylight saving time
automatically yesterday. So perhaps cleaning battery contact points, and
bending contact metal is all that was wrong. Otherwise leaving out the
piezo spring contact-unlikely or close-handling , the big unknown


3 months on of normal 24/7 use and no problem to report.
If it ain't broke, don't poke: replacement battery and disconnected spring
contact remain on the outside.

I have a Waveceptor, don't know the module number, but it's "solar
powered". I don't use the backlight much, but what I remember is I got it
in the spring of 2006, and it's still running fine on the first battery.
At one time, I accidentally activated the function where if you move the
watch at a certain angle the backlight comes on, no need to press a
button. Before I figured out how to reset that, the "battery indicator"
was down one bar, I think the only time it's never been at "full power".
I paid about 20 dollars for it, wanting the "atomic watch" aspect, but
it's nice not to have to change the battery. I know on my previous Casio,
somehow the replacement battery lasted a very short time, and then the
strap broke, so I abandoned it, rather than buy a second battery so soon
on top of needing a new strap.

Michael