I bought the replacement pack from an OEM supplier, build quality was identical if not better, capacity was almost 1 Ah better, (measureable, not just that they tweaked the sticker), etc...
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 7:55 PM, m0gely <[email protected]> wrote: > wes wrote: > > You are correct, those are very interesting points. If your understanding > of > > the connector is correct, you should be able to recondition the cells > > individually. Or, if you can use a tester to find the bad one, just > > recondition that one. > > > > If it's less than a year old, I would suspect a manufacturing defect in > the > > battery. Wouldn't be the first time... > > If you have a laptop battery that holds a charge at the 10 year mark you > are by far the exception. Almost any laptop I've ever seen at 4 to 5 > years, if the battery works at all it's usually around 10 to 15 minutes > of run time. > > And on another note, eBay is a Chinese flea market for laptop batteries, > no matter how genuine the auction says it is. If you get an actual > genuine battery from eBay you got very lucky. Check this out: > > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260370980796 > > FAKE! I know, I got one. And what's that, 9 some odd pages of images and > text convincing you otherwise. See how the battery says made in China in > two spots yet the country code says KR? Or how about the Rev A00 not > matching the white label? Capitalized mAH, should be mAh. And yet the > battery I got, which said made in Japan, was one digit off on the serial > number from the Chinese version in the picture, *one digit off in the > middle*! The manufacturing quality sucked in comparison to my original too. > > </rant> > > -- > m0gely > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
