Re: Follow-up with Pismo charging problem...

on 10/09/03 21:10, Richard Orlin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Wouldn't it be easier t buy a new battery from Battery Technologies for > $120? > How much is your time worth? Good point, Richard. But I think that right now, I can spare a few hours and save $50-60 bucks. Plus, the first one is alwa

Re: Follow-up with Pismo charging problem...

Wouldn't it be easier t buy a new battery from Battery Technologies for $120? How much is your time worth? On Wednesday, September 10, 2003, at 06:20 PM, Lewin Edwards wrote: Ah! A "spotwelder"? I've never seen a "spotwelder" before but I know that this is what they used. Can I find this in an

Re: Follow-up with Pismo charging problem...

Ah! A "spotwelder"? I've never seen a "spotwelder" before but I know that this is what they used. Can I find this in any hardware store? Like I said, The kind you're looking at in the hardware store is intended for big sheetmetal work and is electric. A battery spotwelder is normally ultrasonic

Re: Follow-up with Pismo charging problem...

On 10/09/03 17:37, "Lewin Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The 2nd step is to find those cells at a price where it would make >> sense to >> rebuild. There are 9 cells in an Apple battery, so you need 5 pairs of >> 2. Me >> and Tom Ethen were able to get 12 pairs, I think, for $90, which bri

Re: Follow-up with Pismo charging problem...

On 10/09/03 17:37, "Lewin Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The 2nd step is to find those cells at a price where it would make >> sense to >> rebuild. There are 9 cells in an Apple battery, so you need 5 pairs of >> 2. Me >> and Tom Ethen were able to get 12 pairs, I think, for $90, which bri

Re: Follow-up with Pismo charging problem...

The 2nd step is to find those cells at a price where it would make sense to rebuild. There are 9 cells in an Apple battery, so you need 5 pairs of 2. Me and Tom Ethen were able to get 12 pairs, I think, for $90, which bring the cost so far at around $45. If I can rebuild one, then that would be

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Hi Laurent, Roger that! I will rebuild my dead battery as fast as I can! I hope you will not pay too much for that. What does it cost? Rebuild is not guaranteed successful because the NVRAM in the battery may be corrupted :( -- Lewin A.R.W. Edwards http://www.zws.com/ Learn how to build high-pe

Re: Follow-up with Pismo charging problem...

On 10/09/03 17:00, "Richard Orlin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can you give us some information on how you rebuild the battery? I have > a dead one I wouldn't mind renewing. Richard, The trick was to first determine what cells go inside an Apple battery. We found out this. I don't remember off

Re: Follow-up with Pismo charging problem...

On 10/09/03 17:07, "Lewin Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Laurent, > >> Can this be damaging something in the Pismo? > > Wel the short answer is that you're probably working-out a > failsafe device, which is to be avoided. Merely the fact of tripping it > is inherently undes

Re: Follow-up with Pismo charging problem...

Hi Laurent, Can this be damaging something in the Pismo? Wel the short answer is that you're probably working-out a failsafe device, which is to be avoided. Merely the fact of tripping it is inherently undesirable. The worst-case scenario is that you will push it in and out quickly

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Can you give us some information on how you rebuild the battery? I have a dead one I wouldn't mind renewing. Thanks Richard Orlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- G-Books is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web

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On 10/09/03 14:32, "Lewin Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Laurent, > >> some point that the charge was stopped at 4%. My Pismo was still >> reporting >> charging the battery, but the battery was apparently not charging. I >> also >> noticed that the expected time to reach a full charge went

Re: Follow-up with Pismo charging problem...

Laurent, some point that the charge was stopped at 4%. My Pismo was still reporting charging the battery, but the battery was apparently not charging. I also noticed that the expected time to reach a full charge went from 1:00 to "Calculating... until full". Out of the blue, I removed the batter

Follow-up with Pismo charging problem...

Just a little follow-up on my charging problem. I sent the Pismo for service on Monday. The PMU board was OK, but they found that the PowerBook wouldn't run on the battery when in the right bay, which I never used before. So, they did replace the PMU for that. They checked my 3 months old BTI batte