From: Derek F. Payne (derekpayne_at_mediaone.net)
Date: Mon Dec 10 2001 - 01:00:50 EST
Try this place:
http://www.sarrio.com/sarrio/rebuild.html
Derek
TP770 w/bad battery
-----Original Message-----
From: Ray Bayles [mailto:canyonlands_at_theriver.com]
Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2001 6:47 PM
To: epbrown01_at_att.net
Cc: thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu
Subject: Re: [TP770] Batteries
During the last stages of failure, many Thinkpad batteries will charge
to show a fully charged battery at 97% to 100%. Then in use they will
drop down to 87 or 90 percent, then suddenly drop to zero. Thus
usually happens in just five or ten minutes at the most.
During the time it is in this "charged" status, it will show positive
voltage across the pins... but it really isn't a good battery.
It is still a mystery to me why no company has come out with a battery
rebuilding service... They are available for Compaq and Toshiba
batteries, but not for Thinkpad's (that I know of) I have a big box
of dead Thinkpad batteries that I expected would someday be rebuilt...
so far, no rebuilder has appeared.
Emanuel Brown wrote:
>
> On Sun, 9 Dec 2001 17:57:05 +0000 (GMT), you wrote:
> >A lot of the people selling thinkpad batteries cheaply on ebay who
claim
> >to not have a machine on which to test it, say that they can read a
> >voltage of over 10V between some of the pins. Does this give any
> >indication of the state of the battery? Or is it possible that a
> >completely dead battery will still give a voltage reading.
> >
> "Untested" is eBayspeak for "dead as a doornail." One of the
> sleazier practices used there, I'm afraid. The 600X I bought there
> recently was touted in miraculous condition and all of the hardware
> known to work, but curiously the HDD was "untested." Pretty obvious it
> was bad - all the usual error messages, wouldn't boot, flunks the
> diagnostics. And since it came with good battery, AC cable, and
> everything *else* worked, rather strange the previous owner hadn't
> checked the drive, huh?
> No biggie, of course - I plugged in the 32GB from my dead
600E, and
> it worked like a charm. Still, been nicer if he'd just come out and
> said it. However, the drive isn't why I left him negative feedback.
> Emanuel
> "Everybody wants a normal life and a cool car;
> most people settle for the car." Chris Titus
> http://home.att.net/~epbrown01/1966-rolls.jpg
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--As gold which he cannot spend will make no man richer, so knowledge which he cannot apply will make no man wiser.
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