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.

Pun intended?

Use Lithium-ion batteries. They last nearly forever, and they don't corrode. Acid based batteries not only corrode, they also drop in voltage putting stress on the circuitry, Lithium ion batteries are more stable, and drop rapidly so while I suspect that the stress tends to be a non-issue, I can't prove it. The corrosion issue is enough to drive me to Lithium ion batteries. 

Huh, aren't we talking ultra-low current here? L-Ion is for high current, and they degrade rapidly even when not in use. I have carbon zinc in a remote that is ultra-low current, and they have no corrosion in 10 years!. Just check the batteries every couple years for carbon zinc and every year for alkaline. lous - If you want to prove your LI point, I'd be willing to listen.