[PLUG] technical circuit diagnosis

[m0gely]

wes wrote:
> You are correct, those are very interesting points. If your understanding of
> the connector is correct, you should be able to recondition the cells
> individually. Or, if you can use a tester to find the bad one, just
> recondition that one.
> 
> If it's less than a year old, I would suspect a manufacturing defect in the
> battery. Wouldn't be the first time...

If you have a laptop battery that holds a charge at the 10 year mark you 
are by far the exception. Almost any laptop I've ever seen at 4 to 5 
years, if the battery works at all it's usually around 10 to 15 minutes 
of run time.

And on another note, eBay is a Chinese flea market for laptop batteries, 
no matter how genuine the auction says it is. If you get an actual 
genuine battery from eBay you got very lucky. Check this out:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260370980796

FAKE! I know, I got one. And what's that, 9 some odd pages of images and 
text convincing you otherwise. See how the battery says made in China in 
two spots yet the country code says KR? Or how about the Rev A00 not 
matching the white label? Capitalized mAH, should be mAh. And yet the 
battery I got, which said made in Japan, was one digit off on the serial 
number from the Chinese version in the picture, *one digit off in the 
middle*! The manufacturing quality sucked in comparison to my original too.

</rant>

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m0gely