[ltp] Attention IBM ThinkPad 600e owners in the US...our battery salvation has arrived...

[James McKenzie]

Michelle Klein-Hass wrote:

>On Sunday 21 November 2004 03:56 pm, James McKenzie wrote:
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>>Beast Buy?  Oh well, will have to check with the local Best Buy to see
>>if they will be stocking this battery.  I have a 600E which I replaced
>>with a Kahlon unit.
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>The thing with this particular item, however, is that it's an actual fix for 
>the ongoing 600e battery problem that apparently IBM couldn't fix back in the 
>day, and they don't care to fix now that it's an old model. That's why the 
>mention on the list.  And it's the first time this fix has become 
>economically feasible, too. Those $300-$400 Electrovaya thingies were just 
>too damn expensive. $100 after rebate...that's not an unheard of price for an 
>actual 600e battery. And most of those new ones that you can trust (unlike 
>the Chinese no-name batteries that I just can't bring myself to trust) cost 
>more than that, anyway.\
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The problem with the 600E is deals with a flawed design for heat 
transfer.  If you expose any battery to heat for a long enough time it 
will dry out.  The LiOn battery also has a heat sensitive interruptor 
that would drop all power, almost permentantly, if the battery became 
'overheated'.  Combine these, and this is why the 600 series battery 
would appear to fail prematurely.  An external battery is a solution, 
mostly expensive.  Looks like you found a good solution to the 
problem.    Let's hope that Best Buy does not sell out of them too fast 
so that I can get one as it appears the battery should work on both my 
600E and my A22p.

-- 
James McKenzie
jjmckenzie51@sprintpcs.com
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