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General => Collector's Corner => Topic started by: Zack on June 30, 2020, 16:44:10

Title: Battery for Piano set 5551
Post by: Zack on June 30, 2020, 16:44:10
Hello, I bought the old piano set 5551 from a garage sale last week but the battery is dead.
Anyone knows if these battery are still being manufactured? Can we use other batteries?
http://playmodb.org/cgi-bin/showinv.pl?setnum=5551
Thanks!
Title: Re: Battery for Piano set 5551
Post by: playmofire on June 30, 2020, 18:21:49
The dead battery should have some information on it as to what type it is.
Title: Re: Battery for Piano set 5551
Post by: Zack on June 30, 2020, 19:56:16
Thanks for your response. The custom battery has no information as shown in the photo
http://playmobil.scene7.com/is/content/Playmobil/5551pdf.pdf

I was hoping someone would tell me where to find these custom Playmobil  batteries.
Title: Re: Battery for Piano set 5551
Post by: Indianna on July 01, 2020, 05:03:21
Hi again, Zack!

Thanks for your response. The custom battery has no information as shown in the photo
http://playmobil.scene7.com/is/content/Playmobil/5551pdf.pdf
 
I was hoping someone would tell me where to find these custom Playmobil  batteries.

That diagram shows the little speaker that makes the music and, if I remember correctly, the battery fits inside of it.  Have you already taken the piano apart to remove the dead battery?  I tried a search here at Playmofriends (almost anything you can think of has been discussed here at one time or another) and came up with this post from schluss in 2012:

Hi,

the Piano uses a simple standard cell battery Type 189 / AG 10 ....

Regards

I don't know if this type of battery is still available, but there may be an equivalent.  BTW, set 5551 is one of my favorites.   :)
Title: Re: Battery for Piano set 5551
Post by: Walts-Trains on July 01, 2020, 19:36:01
The AG 10 is a standard battery. I have one of these pianos but I am not sure where it is, I will try and have a look. You should be able to get the AG 10 on eBay as they are a watch battery at about 2 for £1