Recent content by 3lectr1cPPC

Let us know what the main BMS chip is. As Joe said, the BQ series chips are generally able to be made to work after a recell. Gets tricky with some of the stuff Panasonic was using, and anything proprietary of course.

I'm an amateur programmer, "learning as I go" and whatnot. I find LLMs helpful when I've got a bug I can't fix. I'll give it my code, ask it to tell me what's wrong, and I make sure I understand what the problem was rather than just blindly trusting anything. 9 times out of 10 it's one tiny...

Nope! I don't. Haven't ever needed one, and never got one with any of the stuff I've bought. I do have the eMate's software CD-ROM and all the original documentation, so I'll install that on my 3400c and see where that gets me.

I just got an eMate 300. Battery holds a brief charge but is beginning to leak so it needs to go. The power adapter it came with is an aftermarket 7.5V 2A supply, which works fine so far. No "too much power" errors. Is it going to be an issue and do I need to source a 1.2A supply? I don't have...

The 7.5V 2A power supply for the 100 Series PowerBooks fails nearly 100% of the time due to the ELNA-brand capacitors inside of it spilling their guts. There's a specific method where you can use a hammer/mallet and a flat-head screwdriver to cleanly bust the brick open, after which you can...

Whoops - somehow this thread slipped by me! Today is "macdat monthly site update day" so this should be up later today!

Can't help with your main issue, but they do not need a working PRAM battery to boot. I believe some/all of the Duos will only boot with one of the two power buttons if the PRAM is dead, but since you are getting power that isn't your problem.

I'll go ahead and add the cap reference to MacDat: https://macdat.net/repair/cap_reference.html Can't wait to see what you accomplish with this project! Edit: The cap reference ZIP file seems to be corrupted - showing as 1K and Windows says it's empty.

I don't know whether or not the voltage load on those caps is enough that same-value tantalum replacement is "not advisable", but as far as I know, that should at worst cause a shortened lifespan for the caps., rather than causing an immediate failure. FWIW, I used tantalums on my PB100 to no...

I can confirm this works. I moved a 1GB hard disk from my PowerBook 1400 into my 150 (reinstalling the OS of course, but keeping the existing format) and it worked fine. The internal HD format tool is terrible and barely works with any disks other than what the 150 shipped with. You can probably...

I see. That makes sense, and yeah, careful work with a heat gun would probably be required to prevent that from breaking when you try to bend it back. Would be curious to see if you can pull it off.

My 540c has this problem and I don't know what the issue is. I did a full palmrest swap recently (to one in better condition) and the problem didn't go away, so I assume it's to do with the latch itself.

Well well well, where did that come from? Will get it added. Edit: Now up.