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My Beomaster 6500 is showing signs of losing its memory after a series of power cuts. It functions well, no loss of audio quality, but loses the radio station preset frequencies when the power is removed. I can set them again with the Beomaster 7000 control panel or Beolink 1000 panel, but they disappear after a power failure. Also, I think the frequency settings are not accurate - just slightly off. For example a station frequency of 98.4Mhz needs to set at 98.5Mhz.
I see from my service manual that there is a Lithium battery inside, soldered onto the PCB. So two questions:
1. Is this a standard CR2450 battery? I realise it must have solder tags, and I am aware of the need for caution with static electricity.
2. I have read somewhere that the tuner must be reprogrammed after changing this battery. Is this necessary? And is this the reason the station frequency settings are slightly wrong? What is required to reprogram it?
Thanks in advance for any help you can offer to keep my beautiful Beosystem functioning!