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Classic Battery—Positive Experience
Classic Battery—Positive Experience
I recently get a refurbished battery for my venerable 755C from Paul, aka goldeneagle (memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=60882). Finding a "new" battery for this vintage is nearly impossible, but Paul's battery works even better than I had hoped. I use mostly WordStar 7 in DOS 6.22, with some tinkering in WFW 3.11, and am averaging about 5-6 hours per charge.
Not only does it work well, but it was a fair price, shipped quickly, and came with top-notch support.
If you are looking for a hard-to-find battery, or a refurbishment of a dead one, I highly recommend Paul's services!
Not only does it work well, but it was a fair price, shipped quickly, and came with top-notch support.
If you are looking for a hard-to-find battery, or a refurbishment of a dead one, I highly recommend Paul's services!
Re: Classic Battery—Positive Experience
There's actually a "trade secret" I'd like to learn about refurbishing the batteries.. How does one connect to consecutive batteries in a chain? It's obvious that you weld/solder wires to the first/last battery in the chain, but what do you do between the batteries?.. Do you use any solder there (if you're soldering not welding)?..
X220, 2 *T520
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Re: Classic Battery—Positive Experience
I wonder if Paul can provide or fix my 600 and T22/T30 batts...
600 600X
760LD FUBARd
T21 2647 T22 2647 1@ 1GHz SXGA+ 4 more; T23 2647 1@ 1.2GHz SXGA+ 3 more
T30 2366-88U 2GHz; 2366-83U 1.8G; 5@ 2366-LU0/66U; 2367-KU6 FUBARd
T41 T42 T43
T60 T61 8897 2.4GHz SXGA+; 8898 2.4Ghz; 6463 2@ WSXGA+; 7658 2.5GHz; T61p; 6 more T61s
T500 2
T530 W530
760LD FUBARd
T21 2647 T22 2647 1@ 1GHz SXGA+ 4 more; T23 2647 1@ 1.2GHz SXGA+ 3 more
T30 2366-88U 2GHz; 2366-83U 1.8G; 5@ 2366-LU0/66U; 2367-KU6 FUBARd
T41 T42 T43
T60 T61 8897 2.4GHz SXGA+; 8898 2.4Ghz; 6463 2@ WSXGA+; 7658 2.5GHz; T61p; 6 more T61s
T500 2
T530 W530
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Re: Classic Battery—Positive Experience
Thank you for posting your experience. I PM'd Paul!
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Re: Classic Battery—Positive Experience
Sorry I've been kinda out of the loop.cadillacmike68 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 10, 2020 1:13 amI wonder if Paul can provide or fix my 600 and T22/T30 batts...
I've done T2x batteries, but back in 2007! I think those, we reset the EEPROM that stored battery characteristics using a program called Smart Battery Workshop, done by a Russian developer. It was shareware, but the guy I worked for bought all the rights and then killed development afterwards.
The 600 batteries were crap then, and crap now. A lot of them actually have cells that amazingly can be revived. I think the problem is the piss poor battery management hardware from Panasonic. I can't speak to the aftermarket batteries, since they're completely different internally than the IBM OEM ones.
I rebuilt a bunch of packs, and they're all iffy on if they still work or not. I think I might've reused some old cells at the time, but the 600 packs are fairly straightforward for the most part.
Historic ThinkPads owned:
300, 360C/CE/PE, 510CS, 560/E/Z, 600/E/X, 700C, 701C/CS, 720C, 730TE, 750C, 750P, 755C/CE/CX/CDV/CD, 760L, 760EL/XD, 765L
Newer ThinkPads owned:
P50, T480
300, 360C/CE/PE, 510CS, 560/E/Z, 600/E/X, 700C, 701C/CS, 720C, 730TE, 750C, 750P, 755C/CE/CX/CDV/CD, 760L, 760EL/XD, 765L
Newer ThinkPads owned:
P50, T480
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