At 11:11 AM -0400 10/6/00, ahclist wrote:
>2300, 2400, 1400, 3400... uses a battery pack
I have a 2400, I saw the innards of it many times, the battery sits in some cradle
behind a single plastic flip, with the pigtail attached to the pack, I removed the
bettery pack once when i had a green light of death syndrome and I made it rest for a
while. It is not a big deal, cretainly much less involved that exchanging the original
processor for a G3.
with pigtail leads to the
>motherboard. For the most part, each configuration requires a different
>geometry of battery pack. Getting back to the 2400, the battery is a
>custom manufacture, not available through your normal sources or the
>original manufacturer, Varta. The battery pack is welded together,
>properly sealed, and a pigtail wire assembly attached to it. This is not
>something the normal person has to face when they are replacing a 1/2 AA
>in a desktop box. I've been replacing PRAM batteries in powerbooks for
>about 5 years (we had a rental fleet for the movie studios in Wilmington
>-- maybe the most demanding portable environment one can imagine: a beach
>town, salt water, hurricanes, acting talent, directors, producers, crew,
>tight time budgets... oh what fun :) )
Please... we feel very sorry for you, Important Person...
>
>So now you know more of the trade secrets that DT&T or MCE don't want to
>give away :)
>
>Significant damage will occur to the 'book if the battery is not
>installed properly, or the owner can inadvertently short out the battery
>during the installation, rendering it useless. Because of these inherent
>dangers, we no longer sell this battery outright.
Newertech used to sell you the G3 card if you sign a release and you're on your own.
Your altruistic explanation rings hollow.
>the installation for you (which does
>require nearly complete disassembly of the 2400 -- about an hour bench
>time with testing).
>
Not even the installation of the G3 card takes an hour for me and I am just an
amateur. I don't know what testing entails but if you give me a PRAM battery and I do
not install it in 10 minutes with all screws screwed back, for the computer ready to
start up, you can call me a Windows user.
And no, it does not require an almost complete disassembly to the 2400, at most you
have to take out the logic board in one piece, but i know you can just loosen some
screws and you can lift up the logic board enough so as to get to the underside behind
the flip. While taking out the logic board is not a simple matter, compared to
exchanging the processor where you have to take the logic board apart it is less
complicated.
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