The m100 techref schematic shows 1.6k (I think - it's an awful photocopy I
found online)

https://dl.google.com/dl/androidjumper/mtp/502266/androidfiletransfer.dmg

On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 2:01 PM, John Gardner <[email protected]> wrote:

> That's a good point!  Do you know offhand the size of the
>
> current-limiting resistor in series with the NiCD?
>
> On 5/31/17, Brian White <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I had given 80mah as part of the search term to use, because that is the
> > standard capacity of the current standard drop-in replacement for the
> same
> > size/shape/style as the old nicd battery. The nicd version were 50 to 60
> > mah.
> >
> > I'm not worried about overcharging because the internal battery is only
> > charged while the main power is turned on, and by default it turns itself
> > off when idle for 10 minutes.
> >
> > To overcharge the internal battery, you would have to actively use the
> > thing for more than a day or so to get into that territory, or disable
> the
> > 10 minute idle power off, and, do one of those while plugged in to the
> > wall. Normally, either you turn it off, or it shuts itself off, or the AA
> > batteries die long before 24 hours.
> >
> > I thought I read somewhere that you had the same limit with the original
> > battery too anyway, ie that you couldn't charge that forever either. But
> I
> > don't see any such admonition in the user or service manuals, and it is
> > possible to trickle charge nicd (more or less, it's not actually
> harmless,
> > just not quickly catastrophic), so, perhaps that is a valid
> consideration.
> >
> > Personally, I would not, for example, plug an M100 into the wall, issue a
> > POWER CONT in basic, and then run it 24/7 as a server or something, even
> > with the original battery. So, short of that, I see no difference.
> >
> > And, when you search for the original batteries by actual part/model
> > number, vendors and manufacturers offer nimh's as replacements. That
> tells
> > me that the new battery is expected to work in the same conditions as the
> > old.
> >
> > --
> > bkw
> >
> > On May 30, 2017 10:05 PM, "Josh Malone" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> Okay - I was looking for 80mAh for some reason. The ref manual doesn't
> >> specify the capacity, but I see the R/S part was a 50mAh originally.
> >>
> >> So, yeah, other than having to buy 4 at a time, ebay wins. I'm gonna
> wind
> >> up with quite a stock of 100/102 spare parts at this rate.
> >>
> >> -Josh
> >>
> >> On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 9:22 PM, Mike Stein <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> eBay 401159712873, 400826285784 etc.
> >>>
> >>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>> *From:* Josh Malone <[email protected]>
> >>> *To:* [email protected]
> >>> *Sent:* Tuesday, May 30, 2017 8:31 PM
> >>> *Subject:* Re: [M100] Oh no - think my internal nicad finally given up
> >>> theghost
> >>>
> >>> nimh are just easier to find it seems. A quick googling finds a
> >>> godzillion sources of NiMH cells in the right specs, but I can't
> >>> actually
> >>> find an easy supplier of nicd cells in the right specs.
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 6:31 PM, John R. Hogerhuis <[email protected]>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> What's wrong with NiCd? As designed...
> >>>>
> >>>> -- John.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >
>

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