Mailing List ecs-t6x@2rosenthals.com Archived Message #566

From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" <ecs-t6x@2rosenthals.com> Full Headers
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Subject: Laptop battery rebuilding (was: Re: [eCS T60/T61] T61 dead battery)
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 10:38:29 -0400
To: eCS ThinkPad T60/61 Mailing List <ecs-t6x@2rosenthals.com>

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

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Lewis
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