Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 22:31:54 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] New/battery quesioon 100
In a message dated 9/21/03 6:43:28 PM Mountain Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Don't even bother buying a battery off ebay except to get a used one for the > board and case parts. The cells, even if advertised as new, will be too old > to be much good plus you never know whether the battery will work. Either > plan on buying new cells or having the battery rebuilt with new cells. New > cells will give a good 4-5 hours of life if the 3000mAh pack from > www.photoengineering.com is used, or 3-4 hours of life if the standard > 2400mAh pack is used even recording and playing MP3s with external speakers. > With a used or advertised as new battery from Ebay you will be lucky to get > over 3 hours after a using the battery for a while. The cells will be just > too old. I use my own cells (the 3000mAh) and consistantly get around 5 > hours of use. > > John > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hmmm, I think that may be a little over-generalized. I bought 3 PA2498URs on ebay and transplanted the guts into PA2503UR cases, getting >4 hrs from each. Still going as strong a year or more later. If one can buy a battery for a very reasonable price (in my case, <$15 ea) it's worth the gamble to try ebay. Lee ************************************************************** 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 **************************************************************
