Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2002 09:20:11 -0700 From: John Musielewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Complete success
> Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2002 05:19:59 +0000 > From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [LIB] Complete success > > >From: John Musielewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >A very long time ago I posted this link for large single li-ion cells > >availible in the US to anyone. Much higher capacity than the standard > >panasonic plus in my opinion better quality (I don't like panasonic > >batteries anyway:): > > > >http://www.maxxprod.com/mpi-7.htm > > Okay... I wonder if this 18.3mm diameter is what is helping get the > 2000mAh. I'm guessing it took you a while to locate these, and you went > with what you found. If there are any 16mm cells with that power rating, > they're probably hiding out there in the tangle that is the web is they > exist at all. Yes its usually how capacity is improved...the battery is made bigger at first. These actually seem to have improved capacity too since the runtime was twice as long. > > >There was some argument they wouldn't fit because they were thicker > >than the standard panasonic 18.3mm as opposed the 16mm. However I > >ordered some to try since the 1200 mAh pack I had for my 70CT was shot > >and I wanted a 2000 mAh pack in the standard size since I didn't like > >the way the 2400 mAH pack stuck out and the 1200 mAh had too short > >battery life. > > Yeah... I finally got one of the bigger batteries myself. But I still lov > the way the system looks with the smaller battery. The idea of packing mo > power in the standard battery pack sounds very appealing! > > From what you've written if I recall correctly, you must have cut off the > entire top of the battery pack to be able to squeeze those 18.3mm dia. cel Yes. It is wide enough but not tall enough. > in there. 2.3mm is a significant amount of extra space to have to provide > Was there much or any extra space available with the original cells in > there? About 2 or 2.1 mm from the top of the 16 mm batteries to the bottom of the libretto case. > > You wrote: > >I took one more look at the pack and how it fit into the compartment and > >looks like if a person simply used a dremal tool and opened the top so th > >batteries can rest against the libretto case the pack'll fit just like a > >regular 1200 mAh. Even the two protrusions on the side which keep the > >battery from sagging and straining the connector will > >go right in place. Nobody would know the pack is any differant unless you > >took it out. However I can't finish mine off with this because I broke my > >top when I took it off > > I'm not clear on what you were going to do with the top of the battery cas > It sounds like you purposely removed it to provide enough space to get > those 18.3mm cells in there... no? The very top needs to be opened up so the 2AH batteries go through it. > > >The correct pronunciation is muse-see-leev-ich > > Accent on the 2nd syllable? Man... how do you deal with getting people to > pronounce that one!? By grade school, it must have gotten pretty old. :-0 > > M. > > _________________________________________________________________ > Join the world-s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. > http://www.hotmail.com > > ************************************************************** > http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list > http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives > > -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- > Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be > addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text > on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe > --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ > Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest > ************************************************************** > ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
