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Originally Posted by Fat Abe
When you replace the original battery, carefully remove the old connector. [...] Snip the black and red wires with as much lead length as possible remaining on the connector. Then solder it to your new battery wires[...]
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While that should work just fine, you'll eventually cut the original cables too short, while perfect replacements for the original connector may become impossible to find -- not to mention that the original, very fragile and virtually irreplaceable battery socket can be eventually damaged or --God forbid-- broken off.
We can hugely improve on this with very little effort. Buy some male/female JST 2 pin battery connectors (these are almost literally a dime a dozen and you actually need just one female and as many males as you want, so this should cost a couple bucks, tops). Cut the original battery cables so as much of them as possible remains attached to the original (male) connector, just like in the previous post.
Now,
1. Solder those now free ends to your new female JST connector. You basically get a short battery cable extension that also doubles as a new-to-original battery plug converter. Plug it in the original motherboard battery socket.
2. Get a new battery and solder its cables to one of your new male JST plugs. Plug it into your 'extension' cable and enjoy your reader for a while more.
Repeat 2. until the reader itself wears out, instead of having something bad happen to the original battery socket at some point.