Re: WS repair follow-up

[ap]

I just got 3 dead batteries from ebay ( no light ) and revive them 
with VST charger , they old 3 hours each
I just got a good deal






Just a quick note to say thanks to all on the list who responded to 
my WallStreet power/sound board replacement question.

I have now replaced the board, and the sound is now back and the 
PowerBook attempts to charge the battery! Not bad, considering the 
power/sound board only cost me five pounds (about 4 US dollars).

I think the battery has been discharged to the point of no return, 
though. Now when the battery is inserted, the second LED on the 
battery comes on and then goes off. I have tried the battery reset 
application, and also starting up in both OS9 and OSX but this 
didn't make any difference. The battery didn't hold much charge, 
anyway, so it looks like I will need to source a new one. I haven't 
tried disconnecting the power for that long, but the PRAM settings 
(date and time, etc) are no longer reset, which is good.

The process was easier than I thought, and  I found the only fiddly 
bit was reattaching the display cables. Both the PowerBook G3 pdf 
file but particularly the PowerBooktech.com website were useful 
(thanks to Shawn Harley for that link).

Mark
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WS repair follow-up

[Mark Ingle]

Just a quick note to say thanks to all on the list who responded to 
my WallStreet power/sound board replacement question.

I have now replaced the board, and the sound is now back and the 
PowerBook attempts to charge the battery! Not bad, considering the 
power/sound board only cost me five pounds (about 4 US dollars).

I think the battery has been discharged to the point of no return, 
though. Now when the battery is inserted, the second LED on the 
battery comes on and then goes off. I have tried the battery reset 
application, and also starting up in both OS9 and OSX but this didn't 
make any difference. The battery didn't hold much charge, anyway, so 
it looks like I will need to source a new one. I haven't tried 
disconnecting the power for that long, but the PRAM settings (date 
and time, etc) are no longer reset, which is good.

The process was easier than I thought, and  I found the only fiddly 
bit was reattaching the display cables. Both the PowerBook G3 pdf 
file but particularly the PowerBooktech.com website were useful 
(thanks to Shawn Harley for that link).

Mark

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Re: WS repair follow-up

[Shawn Harley]

Mark,
My Wallstreet sat unused for a long period of time, and a good battery 
would no longer take a charge or show up in the control strip(OS 9). I 
zapped PRAM, reset Power Manager, and left "bad" battery in Wallstreet, 
shut down and plugged in to AC for a few days undisturbed. Battery now 
works fine. Worth a try.
Shawn
P.S. - Where did you find the ac/sound card for $4?

On Saturday, August 9, 2003, at 01:32 PM, Mark Ingle wrote:

Just a quick note to say thanks to all on the list who responded to my 
WallStreet power/sound board replacement question.

I have now replaced the board, and the sound is now back and the 
PowerBook attempts to charge the battery! Not bad, considering the 
power/sound board only cost me five pounds (about 4 US dollars).

I think the battery has been discharged to the point of no return, 
though. Now when the battery is inserted, the second LED on the 
battery comes on and then goes off. I have tried the battery reset 
application, and also starting up in both OS9 and OSX but this didn't 
make any difference. The battery didn't hold much charge, anyway, so 
it looks like I will need to source a new one. I haven't tried 
disconnecting the power for that long, but the PRAM settings (date and 
time, etc) are no longer reset, which is good.

The process was easier than I thought, and  I found the only fiddly 
bit was reattaching the display cables. Both the PowerBook G3 pdf file 
but particularly the PowerBooktech.com website were useful (thanks to 
Shawn Harley for that link).

Mark

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Re: WS repair follow-up

[Michelle Klein-Hass]

On Saturday 09 August 2003 05:36 pm, Shawn Harley wrote:
> Mark,
> My Wallstreet sat unused for a long period of time, and a good battery
> would no longer take a charge or show up in the control strip(OS 9). I
> zapped PRAM, reset Power Manager, and left "bad" battery in Wallstreet,
> shut down and plugged in to AC for a few days undisturbed. Battery now
> works fine. Worth a try.

Second that. If you plug your Wallstreet in for at least overnight, more is 
better, often you can revive a tired battery. The backup battery requires at 
least overnight charging to kickstart, and I have heard that 48 hours plugged 
in time without use is optimum for reviving the backup battery. Main battery 
paradoxically requires less charging time.

You have to also unlearn habits you might have learned with NiCad and NiMH 
batteries...a LiIon battery can be successfully "topped off" without 
depleting it completely. In fact, letting a LiIon battery completely 
discharge can fatally damage it. At least, this is what I have heard...

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