Joseph Mack NA3T wrote: > On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, James Brigman wrote: > >> Batteries Plus used to rebuild packs. > > I've rebuilt NiCad packs before with a bit of screwdriver and razorblade > foo so rebuilding a laptop pack sounded a good idea. I called up Batteries > Plus and they said they don't have the lithium batteries for laptops (they > aren't AA's or whatever) so even if I got the pack apart, I'd have to buy > the cells off the internet, putting me back into my original situation of > buying from vendors and not knowing whether the batteries were going to > last 1yr or 3yrs.
I have been very interested lately in the possibility of rebuilding laptop batteries, so I have been all over the Internet reading about it. I don't seem to have any of the sites bookmarked though, so I will have to go from memory. There are places to get Lithium-Ion replacement batteries, and they seem to come in 2 major styles. One style is about the form factor of a AA battery (I believe they are slightly shorter). The other is kind-of a rectangular shape. (Notice I do not know the technical term :p) For kicks, I took apart an old dead lithium battery to see how it ticked. It was a little tough to pry apart, I would have to be much careful with my own. It had 9 AA style batteries. I am mostly interested in this because I am lucky to break 5-6 hours of light use out of the two batteries in my laptop, when I used to be able to get 8+ hours out of it before I tightened up the power management. New batteries are 100-120 a piece, and I would really prefer to pay less :). Also, it seems like you can usually get away with slightly larger capacity cells, which would be nice. Pat
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