[ltp] Re: Battery croaked

[Richard Neill]

Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> croaked. I still have the six-cell that came with the T61. Does anyone
>> have any suggestions for a place to get a nine-cell that will work for
>> more than a few months without dying?
> 
> Any battery that you buy "new" should do the trick.  Lenovo sells them
> and many other companies sell them as well.  

> You can also try to do "refills".  It tends to be a bit cheaper, but it 
> takes more time and sometimes the operation just fails.

Are you advocating assembling the pack yourself? If so, I really don't
recommend it. LiPo batteries are somewhat more quirky than NiCd ones,
and if you get it wrong, it could possibly catch fire.

The older NiCd packs were pretty easy to make, and would never fail in a
dangerous manner, unless *really* severely abused. Whereas, to make a
LiPo pack fail unsafely, you just need to be slightly out-of spec, and
unlucky.  Probably better to buy a new pack from the manufacturer, I think!

Richard