Hello, Years ago I bought several used Thinkpad 600 batteries at a fleamarket that worked good and I bought a Thinkpad 380 battery at another fleamarket that was bad. They have to be really cheap for me to consider giving them a shot.
It also depends on how they were treated and the number of charge cycles as to how long a used battery will last. 73 Eric -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of STeve Andre' Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 4:21 PM To: Martin N Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Official Thinkpad batterys On 11/10/11 11:02, Martin N wrote: > Hello, > > A couple of second hand T60 Thinkpad batteries have come up on ebay > and i was wondering > if anybody on here had an idea roughly what sort of time i could > expect from the second > batteries. > > First is described as tested 91% from the IBM battery management > software. > Second one is 98% > > They are both the 9 cell physically larger battery pack. > > Thanks for your time > > Martin N > > Running MorphOS v2.6 (Nov 2010) on Mac Mini, Moderator of > MiniDisc,amithlonopen,bwfc Yahoogroups I would not get them. You simply can't know what the real health of a battery is by looking at the charge rate. If I had a choice between used real IBM batteries and a new clone battery, I'd take the clone. Of course, it's a roulette game. I know someone who saw some batteries for his X6x laptop, and got three used ones for $40 and they all worked! But I've bought things like that where it would have been more entertaining to stand in the flea market burning $20 bills... Best of luck. --STeve Andre' _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
