PowerBook 5300-gotchas?

[croissantking]

That'd be wonderful, remember, I'm in the UK and my guess is that with a name like "Potomac", you might be in Washington DC?

They're local!

 

[PotoMac]

Nope. Cambridge.

 

[Snial]

I’ve just rebuilt my PB1400c battery. I used tabbed ‘A’ cells that I got off eBay, and soldered them together. I get between 1:30 to 2 hours runtime in this configuration.

The correct batteries to get are the 4/3A ones if you want the most runtime possible, but you ideally need a spot welder as clearance is tight.

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Every-so-often I keep searching for this post as it seems like a simpler way to rebuild a PowerBook 1400 battery, but most of the search terms I use keep missing. So here I'll just list my likely search terms:

"Rebuild PowerBook 1400 Battery"
"Rebuild PowerBook 1400 Battery NiMh"
"Rebuild PowerBook 1400 Battery Nubs"
"Rebuild PowerBook 1400 Battery Solder"
""Rebuild PowerBook 1400 Battery 4/3 A" (it's just an A battery, but searching for either should match).