Laptop Battery Hack

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9 points·wisdomtalks··4 comments

It would be great if more people did this sort of thing - not because it saves money, but because it saves throwing away electronics that otherwise work fine, and well... because I like pulling things apart!

In the past, I've rescued a cordless telephone and a friend's PC (dead battery on motherboard) from being premature landfill. I plan to do this with my electric toothbrush when the time comes. If it contains a battery, there's a fair bet you can get a straight replacement on the web.

Agreed. While opening battery cases can be hard as long as you are careful to not impale the batteries inside it's often possible to service what's there. I'm not a soldering machine but I've managed to solder batteries without exploding them.

Electric tooth brushes are a classic example of a whole mechanism going in to the landfill just because they choose to make it non-servicable.

Hard? Sometimes it's impossible.

Some of the Dell batteries I've tried to fix have the plastic edges sonically welded together. They're melted together. You're not going to be able to pry this open by any shot, you're going to have to cut. It's not going to look pretty when it's over.

I had to Dremel open a newton battery pack. You're right, the end results are not pretty but I got my newton working again!

The good thing about the newton is that the battery pack is hidden within the main body.

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