Options

Has anyone rebuilt a rechargeable battery pack?

I was looking through some links for iBook g3 graphics chip repair and came across a youtube site of someone taking apart the battery, desoldering all the connections and replacing the old lithium batteries with new.

As my batteries seem only to have a life of 1 hour max after a full charge and this iBook is 10 years old, buying a battery costs more than buying the laptop.

This may not belong on meta but, just wondering what people think about it as a guide to be made for the site, or has anyone done this repair themselves? Would you consider this too dangerous for the average repairman? If I were to buy the 6 batteries and swap them over it would cost me about $10..or buy a battery pack for $+++.

Reply to discussion Subscribe to discussion

Is this a worthwhile discussion?

Yes No
Score 0

2 Comments:

pollytintop, not sure if you already looked at these. http://www.engadget.com/2005/06/28/how-t... and on here. http://www.instructables.com/id/Apple-Ib... gives yo a bit of an insight what might be required. Also http://www.neufeld.newton.ks.us/electron... and here http://www.ornery.net/2008-01-22/ I am pretty sure you can get it accomplished.

by

thanks for those links, I watched the youtube thing and had a bit of a eureka moment...I think the 3rd link you've put in looks really good, probably better than anything I can do. It's just that we always recommend getting new power packs/battery packs etc and on a site for recycling and reusing maybe we could be a bit more tangential? Also there's a bit of a heat/moisture/lithium thing in my mind that I think will be off putting to the average joe. I'm going to try this idea out on one of my spares batteries (just waiting for pay day to roll round!)

by

Add a comment