From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (account lgrosenthal HELO [192.168.200.22]) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTPSA id 2354822 for ecs-t6x@2rosenthals.com; Sat, 10 Apr 2010 10:38:31 -0400 Message-ID: <4BC08D65.3090803@2rosenthals.com> Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 10:38:29 -0400 Organization: Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090827 MultiZilla/1.8.3.5g SeaMonkey/1.1.18 (PmW) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: eCS ThinkPad T60/61 Mailing List Subject: Laptop battery rebuilding (was: Re: [eCS T60/T61] T61 dead battery) References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Quick follow-up with yet another option for the battery-lorn: It is possible to rebuild the existing battery pack, keeping the circuitry intact and just replacing the cells. Some links: http://www.engadget.com/2005/06/28/how-to-rebuild-your-laptop-battery/ http://www.electronics-lab.com/articles/Li_Ion_reconstruct/ http://www.batteryrebuild.com/ While I'm not 100% sure that this will avoid the nasty "illegal" battery warnings from the Lenovo battery utility, I believe it should. Jon, you mihgt want to give this a go on your dead unit, just to see if it's worthwhile (I may do so on one of mine). Cheers/2 -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------- Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC www.2rosenthals.com Need a managed Wi-Fi hotspot? www.hautspot.com visit my IT blog www.2rosenthals.net/wordpress -------------------------------------------------------------