Identification of LR44/SR44 PCB Battery Holder

CPC have some but you'd have to use 2 single holders.

See here, a 12mm coin cell is what you are after I think.

Thanks for quick response

Yes. It’s getting something similar as it requires 2 x SR44 batteries as it’s quite a tight enough space for the PCB to slide into. PCB is 70mm x 17mm and slides on a rail inside the compass. It just provides a red background light for nighttime usage

There are edgeways push-in cell holders for LR44s on amazon? Would two of those fit in line along the PCB? They would eliminate the screw needed to change cells as well.


Digikey sell a "drawer" style holder:

That could be better, as with the drawer pulling out to the side, it could not open when the PCB was installed. That does need a battery contact on the PCB, rather than both being part of the holder assembly though.

Cheers folks.

I’ve ordered up a couple of different versions (one from Amazon as above and one from RS Components) to have a look at what may work better than the one that is on the board as the bit that failed was a plastic stub that held the metal plate on that doubled up to create a series circuit with the two batteries. The ones I’m looking at now won’t confuse crew as to what way to put batteries in.

SR44 Battery Holder

Many thanks

Declan