Remote Maintenance

All analog. Tube rectifiers. Massive overbuilt caps. Deulund. Path Audio resistors. The power supply for the remote, not only cost more than the remote, cost more than the amp the remote controlled! Still it would have been a small price to pay to ease my mind of the constant incessant never-ending unfathomable stress of worrying a battery might leak, sometime, someday, possibly, maybe in the next dozen years. 

In the end I will switch to solar. No. Wait. Solar needs a battery too? Dang. Is it possible this is all a waste of time? At this point that would seem to be at least a remote possibility.

Now you got me worried about the leaky battery. So I built a power supply, run it to the remote, and thought it was great because now I can follow the wire and never lose the remote! But then, what's this? Sounded better with the battery??! 

So I tried silver wire. I tried shielded wire. Even tried Active Shielded wire. Still sounds better with the factory battery supply. 

In the end I decided to remove the screws and Scotch tape the battery cover. So I can check every day. Just in case. Spot the leak early. 

Whew! Close one. Averted, and all thanks to this thread. Who says audiophiles don't listen?

Usually about once a week I fish it out from between the cushions, check it out for tequila infiltration, wipe it off and return to my margarita. Be careful though because Pina colada uses coconut syrup, dry towel alone won't do use damp sponge first.