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Memory Backup for the Devil Fish modified TB-303
Robin Whittle 10 May 2015 www.firstpr.com.au/rwi/dfish/
© Robin Whittle 2015. TB-303 is a trademark of the Roland Corporation. TT-303 and Bass Bot are
trademarks of Cyclone Analogic. MS Word to PDF via Bullzip PDF printer: www.bullzip.com
Ideally, retaining data in the original or the 32 Bank Memory systems would be straightforward. However,
this is no longer the case. Option A served well from 1996 to 2014, but in 2015, due to problems with air-
freight restrictions on lithium batteries, we are now using a new approach Option B for overseas customers,
and a related Option C for Australian customers.
Contents
0 - What this manual does not apply to .............................................................................. 1
1 - This Devil Fish has one of three approaches to battery backup ................................ 2
Determining whether a machine has Option A, B or C............................................................... 3
2 - The TB-303's original Memory Backup System ............................................................ 3
3 - Option A - Permanently installed cylindrical lithium battery ....................................... 5
Measuring the voltage of the permanently installed lithium battery ............................................ 8
4 - Option B - C-cells with under-voltage protection, a large capacitor and an optional
user-installed replaceable lithium coin-cell battery ..................................................... 8
Installing and changing the 2032 coin-cell lithium battery ......................................................... 9
Testing the voltage of the 2032 coin-cell battery ..................................................................... 12
Testing the VRAM voltage ....................................................................................................... 12
Testing the VRAM current ....................................................................................................... 13
Deliberately zeroing VRAM to erase the memory contents ...................................................... 13
5 - Option C - C-cells with under-voltage protection, large capacitor and a replaceable
lithium coin-cell battery already installed ................................................................... 13
0 - What this manual does not apply to
In Devil Fish TB-303s with a Quicksilver 303 system, the memory which stores patterns, tracks etc. is
FLASH memory within the Quicksilver microcontroller chip. The TB-303s static RAM memory chips are
removed as part of the Quicksilver installation. FLASH memory does not require batteries for data
retention. It is a form of electrically erasable programmable memory, in which electrons are removed from
and returned to small islands of silicon, which are surrounded by silicon dioxide (quartz) insulation. TT-303
Bass Bots also use FLASH memory, and so require no batteries for data retention. This will remain the case
for Devil Fish modified Bass Bots in the future.
In both these types of machine, the four C-cells which can be installed in the battery compartment are purely
to run the machine, and are not required to retain memory contents.
The first 18 Devil Fishes, serial number -001 to 016 (Version 1 Devil Fishes, 1993 to 1994) had no lithium
battery. None of these machines had the 32 Bank Memory system. They used the standard TB-303 memory
backup arrangement (as described in Section 2 below) which depends on the four C-cell batteries.
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Memory Backup for the Devil Fish modified TB-303 Robin Whittle 10 May 2015 www.firstpr.com.au/rwi/dfish/ © Robin Whittle 2015. TB-303 is a trade

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10their lithium polycarbon monofluoride batteries have a longer life in low-current battery backup applications. I suggest you buy one of the follo

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11The battery almost clipped into the holder. Red marks the positive contacts, which hook over the edge of the main body of the battery. On the

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12Testing the voltage of the 2032 coin-cell battery Lithium coin-cells have a smaller electrical capacity and greater chance of electrolyte evapora

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13higher), then if the capacitor is not being driven via the internal diodes from the main power supply, or by the C-cell or the coin cell batteries

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14Document history • 2015-02-02 New document. • 2015-02-04 Added note about DHL accounts only being allowed for businesses which ship to other bu

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21 - This Devil Fish has one of three approaches to battery backup In the printed version of this manual, one of the boxes below is marked with an

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3Determining whether a machine has Option A, B or C If you have a machine without its original documentation, you can determine which memory backup

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41 - IF power is supplied via an external 9 volt adaptor (which is regulated inside the TB-303 to +6 volts) AND the power switch is turned on, the

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51 - If the machine was left running from batteries for too long, the voltage would drop so far that firstly memory data would be lost and secondl

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6These cells have a self-discharge rate of less than 1% per year, depending on the temperature. With the ordinary memory chips, which draw very sm

Página 12 - Testing the VRAM voltage

7This was a perfectly satisfactory solution to the memory backup problem. It remains so, except for a problem which we had to resolve in 2015: 3 -

Página 13 - Testing the VRAM current

8 We can't use TNT or FedEx. If we retained the permanently installed lithium batteries, we might be able to use DHL or UPS, but it would cost

Página 14 - Document history

9or as little as 3.7 volts, they will still be able to power the original memory chips or the 32 Bank Memory system, for many years. Option A'

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