Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 23:44:58 +0300 From: John Niemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [LIB] Rebuilding a battery pack
Thanks for all replies, you have been most helpful! Just a few more questions; if I end up buying 6 cells that are 1500mAh each, do I end up with a 1500mAh battery pack? If yes, then that is not so long-powered I think...? Also, what are these "Saft Primary Lithium Thionyl Chloride Batteries" seen in http://www.slavin4u.com/lithium.html and can they be substituted? Asking because there is a 3400 mAh version for sale on the above page and it's dimensions are just a tad smaller than the Panasonic CGR17670HC/CGR17670HG (the original battery). But I assume the replacements must be Li-Ion and Li-Ion only, right? The point is I want to do this operation once, and then do it with the best available parts. I want the best cells I can get (for a reasonable price) so I don't need to open up my battery pack again in a looong time. PS. I managed to get the pack open with just a few slight scratches on the visible parts of the battery pack (the part that goes hiding into the Libretto is pretty scuffed though because I used too much brute force but that doesn't matter :) I stopped to think for a second and used a very slow technique on the visible parts of the pack; I slid a very very small screwdriver in the seam and used a small hammer to tap it along the seam so that I never had to jerk the screwdriver in or out of the seam... I just tapped it slowly and gently so that the glue came off and the seam opened in little steps... I really don't know how to describe it but if someone is interested I could try to take a few staged pics of the method I used. -John
