If you never take any other advice I provide, please follow this one:
Remove the board destroying Alkaline batteries from all your machines and replace them with Energizer Lithium batteries. Yes they cost a lot more but they will last at least 5 years between replacements and will never leak board destroying corrosives onto your CPU board.
My STTNG - Battery installation date: November 2015. These batteries have never been replaced.
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