"Keith" <kchirsan@adelphia.net> wrote in message news:Su-
dnVwrt6CECOvfRVn-hQ@adelphia.com...
Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 17:01:12 -0400

     Thanks Again Bill,

     I just saw your latest post. It's been a while since I've been
     here. I kinda put this battery thing on the back burner till now.
     I'll try your test. Normally I would just break down and spend the
     $150 bucks or so on a new battery but too much happening now to do
     so. Besides I still would like to convince myself that I have three
     bad batteries that won't hold enough charge to run the laptop for 5
     seconds. Something just doesn't seem right.

Hi Keith... I'm almost positive you can find brand new batteries for
about 70 bucks a piece. So I wouldn't spend over 100 bucks a piece for
sure. Let me know if you need help in this area. Although I have never
purchased from these people. So that is the bad news.

Yeah that three bad batteries theory is really hard to shallow for me
too. And like I said before, two bad batteries is one thing, but three?
That is really pushing it. Even if your laptop turns out being bad at
charging, the good news is that you can purchase external battery
chargers for these batteries on eBay for about 20 to 30 bucks a piece
(retail these are like 100 bucks or more). And thus so what if your
laptop can't charge batteries! I try my best not to charge these
batteries from the laptop and if possible charge them off of the
external chargers anyway. As these are better than the laptop itself
anyway.

     I assume the 22 gauge non-insulated wire is because it's going to
     be a bit of a tight fit with both wires and the battery installed?

Well the smaller the wire is better. As you want to read the voltage and
the current is in the microamps at best. Thus the smaller the less of
the effect of the tight fit. And the smaller the wire, the more the wire
will act as a fuse if you short something accidentally. You could strip
off the insulation for the part of the tight fit too. As there is
nothing but plastic here to short anything anyway.

     Sounds like a good test. I'll let you know.

Okay, I love to hear the outcome of this. I also love to have one of
these three batteries as well. As I have enough equipment to test such a
battery. But this requires shipping and money and all. But the voltages
of the batteries are one good sign. It isn't for sure or anything. But
if the batteries are 12.4v or higher, I believe there is a good chance
that the batteries are fine. The higher the better of course. Those that
read 12.6v or greater in my experience are excellent! I never had one
read over 12.7v yet though (Toshiba PA2487U). Although I never had one
right off of the assembly line either.


Cheers!


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Bill (using a HP AMD 1.2GHZ & Windows 2000)
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