re: [Thinkpad] Refill/Recell IBM Battery

I don't know of a way to identify which of a parallel-connected
pair of cells is bad without separating them. The connections
are usually (& should be) welded, which makes re-assembly more
difficult.
 
The bigger problem is that once you have replaced the weakest cell,
you then have a 6-cell battery with 5 old cells and one new cell.
The remaining life expectancy of the 5 old cells is very short.
One of them WILL fail soon and your effort will be mostly wasted,
with no easy way to reclaim the life left in new cell you just
installed.
    
I once located a company (in Florida?) that rebuilds TP batteries.
A search might reveal whether they are still in business. They
seemed to have a good grasp of the battery-rebuilding business
(I realize that Florida is probably not an option for you).
    
PLEASE!

Turn _OFF_ "quoted-printable" in your mailer.
It makes your messages harder to read.
    
Regards, Steve
  
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On 1/4/05, Supir Kopaja wrote, in part:
>This is a very good information for me, many thanks! The website you =
>told me
>in your email is very informative.
>
>About how to test which cell is working, I found that I can test it =
>using a
>multitester. I repack them, test them and found some of them have no
>reaction (the multitester arrow still in number "0") and some of them =
>give a
>reaction (the multi tester arrow is go to higher number/the arrow in
>multitester is moving).
>Can I test them in that way?
>
>Please don't get me wrong, I am not going to provide a professional =
>support
>for my customer regarding to batteries. I sell user laptops and want to
>equip the laptops with working batteries (with normal performance, I =
>don=92t
>need to equipt the laptops with a best performance like brandnew =
>batteries
>do).
>Refill/recell those batteries to 3rd party cost me a lot, that is why I =
>want
>to recell them with "normal" performance.
>
>Any suggestion are very welcome :)
>
>Kopaja.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> Sent: Monday, Jan 03, '05
>> To: Supir Kopaja
>> ...
>> The best battery site I've seen recently is:
>>
>> www.buchmann.ca
>> ...
    

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Received on Tue Jan 4 11:50:32 2005