Re-celled batteries any good?

[Robertbarr]

I just bought an A31 (2652-p3u, whatever that indicates). The battery is understandably showing its age, with about 40 minutes of run time from a full charge. I found a website for re-cell service that replaces the cells with modern units, with an advertised 10% (or so) gain in capacity over new. I'm wondering if anyone else has tried this. It'll cost about $55 all told for the A31, which compares roughly with what people are asking on eBay for who-knows-what-brand of new battery.

On this unit, the screen brightness drops considerably when I unplug the AC adapter, even with a full charge. This would seem to indicate that the battery doesn't provide the voltage that it should, even with enough capacity to operate the laptop for half an hour or longer. I'm hoping a battery update will cure that.

Here's the outfit I was looking over:

http://www.batteryrefill.com/laptops/ib ... _A30.phtml

Any opinions on re-celling versus eBay? Any third option that I haven't stumbled across?

Thanks!

R. Barr

[Robertbarr]

On this unit, the screen brightness drops considerably when I unplug the AC adapter, even with a full charge.

OK, a quick survey of the BIOS settings fixes this. Nobody's used a Re-Cell outift for laptop batteries?

RB

[vanaya]

I have bought a 600e battery from them but, search found this:
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.ph ... yrefill%2A
and here: http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.ph ... yrefill%2A