Since I do not have a triagular screwdriver I cannot open my old battery to look, but was wondering what the actual cells used in a 14' iBook battery were? If they are something I can get from Maplin/RS et al then I suppose I could make myself a spare?
kt.
X Kyle M Thompson kyle.thompson@redacted.invalid wrote:
Since I do not have a triagular screwdriver I cannot open my old battery to look, but was wondering what the actual cells used in a 14' iBook battery were? If they are something I can get from Maplin/RS et al then I suppose I could make myself a spare?
I think Adrian Tuddenham has looked inside iBook batteries, in the past, and revived them. I remember looking inside a dead one and the actual cells are fairly 'normal' looking NiMH ones. AA sized at a guess. Plus a number of resistors and/or diodes. At that point I gave up but I'm sure that with a bit more determination it might have been fixable.
On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Peter Ceresole wrote:
X Kyle M Thompson kyle.thompson@redacted.invalid wrote:
Since I do not have a triagular screwdriver I cannot open my old battery to look, but was wondering what the actual cells used in a 14' iBook battery were? If they are something I can get from Maplin/RS et al then I suppose I could make myself a spare?
I think Adrian Tuddenham has looked inside iBook batteries, in the past, and revived them. I remember looking inside a dead one and the actual cells are fairly 'normal' looking NiMH ones. AA sized at a guess. Plus a number of resistors and/or diodes. At that point I gave up but I'm sure that with a bit more determination it might have been fixable.
Perhaps I'll try and find an appropriate screwdriver and give it a go. Is there anything in there that will give me a shock, I wonder?
On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 21:04:04 +0100, X Kyle M Thompson wrote (in article Pine.OSX.4.58.0604052103090.6203@redacted.invalid):
On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Peter Ceresole wrote:
X Kyle M Thompson kyle.thompson@redacted.invalid wrote:
Since I do not have a triagular screwdriver I cannot open my old battery to look, but was wondering what the actual cells used in a 14' iBook battery were? If they are something I can get from Maplin/RS et al then I suppose I could make myself a spare?
I think Adrian Tuddenham has looked inside iBook batteries, in the past, and revived them. I remember looking inside a dead one and the actual cells are fairly 'normal' looking NiMH ones. AA sized at a guess. Plus a number of resistors and/or diodes. At that point I gave up but I'm sure that with a bit more determination it might have been fixable.
Perhaps I'll try and find an appropriate screwdriver and give it a go. Is there anything in there that will give me a shock, I wonder?
How expensive they are if you have to buy a new one?
On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Mark wrote:
On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 21:04:04 +0100, X Kyle M Thompson wrote (in article Pine.OSX.4.58.0604052103090.6203@redacted.invalid):
On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Peter Ceresole wrote:
X Kyle M Thompson kyle.thompson@redacted.invalid wrote:
Since I do not have a triagular screwdriver I cannot open my old battery to look, but was wondering what the actual cells used in a 14' iBook battery were? If they are something I can get from Maplin/RS et al then I suppose I could make myself a spare?
I think Adrian Tuddenham has looked inside iBook batteries, in the past, and revived them. I remember looking inside a dead one and the actual cells are fairly 'normal' looking NiMH ones. AA sized at a guess. Plus a number of resistors and/or diodes. At that point I gave up but I'm sure that with a bit more determination it might have been fixable.
Perhaps I'll try and find an appropriate screwdriver and give it a go. Is there anything in there that will give me a shock, I wonder?
How expensive they are if you have to buy a new one?
Oh, I already got one from ebay for GBP20 - nearly a year old, and only at 78% capacity, but cheaper than GBP88 for a new one.
kt.
On 5/4/06 9:04, in article Pine.OSX.4.58.0604052103090.6203@redacted.invalid, "X Kyle M Thompson" kyle.thompson@redacted.invalid wrote:
Perhaps I'll try and find an appropriate screwdriver and give it a go. Is there anything in there that will give me a shock, I wonder?
The naked picture of Steve Jobs!
Cheers,
Chris
On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 23:59:50 +0100, X Kyle M Thompson wrote (in article Pine.OSX.4.58.0604052358380.6203@redacted.invalid):
On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Mark wrote:
On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 21:04:04 +0100, X Kyle M Thompson wrote (in article Pine.OSX.4.58.0604052103090.6203@redacted.invalid):
On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Peter Ceresole wrote:
X Kyle M Thompson kyle.thompson@redacted.invalid wrote:
Since I do not have a triagular screwdriver I cannot open my old battery to look, but was wondering what the actual cells used in a 14' iBook battery were? If they are something I can get from Maplin/RS et al then I suppose I could make myself a spare?
I think Adrian Tuddenham has looked inside iBook batteries, in the past, and revived them. I remember looking inside a dead one and the actual cells are fairly 'normal' looking NiMH ones. AA sized at a guess. Plus a number of resistors and/or diodes. At that point I gave up but I'm sure that with a bit more determination it might have been fixable.
Perhaps I'll try and find an appropriate screwdriver and give it a go. Is there anything in there that will give me a shock, I wonder?
How expensive they are if you have to buy a new one?
Oh, I already got one from ebay for GBP20 - nearly a year old, and only at 78% capacity, but cheaper than GBP88 for a new one.
kt.
£20!? Last time I looked they were about £50 - that was for a 12" though....I'll have to have a furtle..
Mark wrote:
On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 23:59:50 +0100, X Kyle M Thompson wrote (in article Pine.OSX.4.58.0604052358380.6203@redacted.invalid):
On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Mark wrote:
On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 21:04:04 +0100, X Kyle M Thompson wrote (in article Pine.OSX.4.58.0604052103090.6203@redacted.invalid):
On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Peter Ceresole wrote:
X Kyle M Thompson kyle.thompson@redacted.invalid wrote:
Since I do not have a triagular screwdriver I cannot open my old battery to look, but was wondering what the actual cells used in a 14' iBook battery were? If they are something I can get from Maplin/RS et al then I suppose I could make myself a spare?
I think Adrian Tuddenham has looked inside iBook batteries, in the p= ast, and revived them. I remember looking inside a dead one and the actual cells are fairly 'normal' looking NiMH ones. AA sized at a guess. Pl= us a number of resistors and/or diodes. At that point I gave up but I'm s= ure that with a bit more determination it might have been fixable.
Perhaps I'll try and find an appropriate screwdriver and give it a go. Is there anything in there that will give me a shock, I wonder?
How expensive they are if you have to buy a new one?
Oh, I already got one from ebay for GBP20 - nearly a year old, and only at 78% capacity, but cheaper than GBP88 for a new one.
=A320!? Last time I looked they were about =A350 - that was for a 12" though....I'll have to have a furtle.
Lots are buy it now for =A345 with about =A39 postage, occasionally people put them up for real auctions and you can be lucky - if you don't mind a slightly older battery. 4 hour life is better than the couple of minutes I was getting with the old one!
kt.
X Kyle M Thompson kyle.thompson@redacted.invalid wrote:
Perhaps I'll try and find an appropriate screwdriver and give it a go. Is there anything in there that will give me a shock, I wonder?
Only the complication of the wiring and the diodes... No, nothing at all. After all, the whole thing is very low voltage.