recelling Duo battery

[naryasece]

Hi,

I saw a post about recelling a 500 series intelligent battery and it got me wondering if anyone has had any luck with recelling a Duo's NIMH battery. I love my 2300c to death, but 45 to 60 minutes of battery life makes it difficult to be anything more than not productive (although i am happy to get any sort of battery life from it!). I think my biggest hurdle is getting it open with out destroying the plastics or cells within. Once open i can figure out the soldering.

On a related note, anyone know how the Intelligent circuitry works? I've been toying with the idea of developing a battery that fits Apple's older notebooks, but accepts standard AA NIMH batteries (sort of like the Newton 2x00's battery tray). I think I will try prototyping that for a 100 series this summer.

Thanks!

 

[Bunsen]

/me clobbers you over the head with my sig

 

[naryasece]

/me clobbers you over the head with my sig

>_<; *rubs bruise on head*

I'll do some more sleuthing around the net. I've seen discussions on recelling other batteries but not the Duo in particular. Though I did see a post about the duo battery on this site but it was just a mention about it.

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

http://www.fenestrated.net/~macman/DuoBattery/index.html :b&w:

Try Googling the guy mentioned as having "written a treatise on rebuilding the PowerBook Duo batteries."

Then post all useful results into the Peripherals: LINKS Project: Rev. 3.0 . . .

. . . found in the Peripherals Forum, naturally. :

jt: still bangin' on Google quicker'n most! =8-D

p.s. one day I'll have to get in there to edit one of my old posts to re-figure how to embed links into txt. :I

p.p.s. how do yo you access that "archive of the web" thingamajig? :?:

 

[Bunsen]

[url=http://archive.org]that "archive of the web" thingamajig?[/url]

appears as

that "archive of the web" thingamajig?

 

[Bunsen]

[url=http://archive.org]that "archive of the web" thingamajig?[/url]

appears as

that "archive of the web" thingamajig?

ETA: and said treatise - sadly, missing some images - appears here.

Rebuilding a Duo Battery (archive version)

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

ETA: and said treatise - sadly, missing some images - appears here.Rebuilding a Duo Battery (archive version)

Good work, comrade Bunsen!

I saved the Web Page & Copied/Pasted all the .txt and remaining piccies into an MS Works .wps document.

Thanks for the BBCode refresher, I'm still a lil' slow on picking this WWW stuff back up. I've been stuck on the "Information Cowpath" for quite some time now . . .

. . . but I'm steadily makin' some improvements in my skills! :b&w:

jt: still only firin' on about 7 of my 12 cylinders . . . :I