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replavement laptop battery

05/16/2009 10:56 AM

I bought a generic battery replacement for my Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop. Sixty bucks wasted because the battery is not recognized. Can anyone say what I need to do?

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Re: replavement laptop battery

05/16/2009 11:14 AM

I would crack the cases open and swap over the batteries from the good to the not os good, but that is just me...

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Re: replavement laptop battery

05/16/2009 12:02 PM

I would do the same :L

Make sure you make a schematic first though, to make sure you solder them in the right way and all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtqRvAu71Gw

Instead of buying new batteries, just hack apart both batteries

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Re: replacement laptop battery

05/18/2009 8:39 AM

You have to be careful when considering a cell-swap in SOME laptop batteries. I have re-built a couple of battery packs for laptops that would refuse to work if the electronics were disconnected. The manufacturer did this as a means to prevent users from rebuilding their own packs, and to detect any "tampering". I had to "hot-swap" all the new cells into the old pack, keeping voltage applied to the microcontroller that controlled the battery. Not an easy task to do!

I have also re-built some batteries that were not this way, you could just swap out good for bad. It takes a few discharge/charge cycles for the microcontroller to "re-learn" the battery cells.

For what it's worth, the laptop that didn't allow a simple cell-swap was a Dell, and the ones that would were some older IBM Thinkpads. Good luck. Some Googling on your particular laptop brand/model might get you some more relevant information.

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Re: replavement laptop battery

05/18/2009 10:42 AM

What if you were a disbarred lawyer with minimal soldering skills, still doable? I thought it was a battery friver issue, if there is a software patch--I cannot see how the connection would be bad to justify such an attempted swap. Bought the battery on credit card so its returnable but id still face the same problem.

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Re: replavement laptop battery

10/28/2009 10:52 PM

Send it back and say it is not recognized get your money back and by a Dell battery.

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