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Title: Doesn't last - DO NOT BUY - bad design
Review: The rice cooker works well, BUT it has non-serviceable lithium battery soldered on the circuit board in the electronics box that houses the control panel. When the battery is depleted after ~5 years the unit won't work. And it will cost more than 50% of the original price to send it to the Sanyo service center for replacing the $3 battery. If you are handy and try to replace the battery, there isn't a standard battery holder, just two flimsy contacts that you have pry off the old battery and no straightforward way to insert the replacement battery without doing some modification / hacking. Search the internet for this problem and you will see it is a common problem with ALL Sanyo rice cookers - do not buy any Sanyo rice cooker - bad design, bad service, and you will lose the entire machine for the sake of $3 battery that the manufacturer intentionally decided to make inaccessible and non-serviceable.
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