[Thinkpad] Re: External battery solution

I've been looking for a similar solution and this does look interesting.
But...
>Laptops draw quite a bit of power. You could certainly connect 11 C or
D cells in series and power your laptop from them, but probably not for
very long.<

I do wonder how long this battery pack will actually power a working
machine.
For @$50us it may be worth a try.

When I'm working in the field I use an UltraBay battery to augment my
main battery and am getting @4 hrs of use. This setup usually gets me
through a normal day, but occasionally I need to plug in. I do basically
always have AC power available it's just inconvenient to be tethered by
the cords.

Another battery note:
I recently exchanged my old T-23 battery at batteryrefill.com for @$55us
and can report very good results so far. They shipped a refilled IBM
battery and accepted my dying original in exchange. Also they were a
pleasure to deal with when I called to ask if they would ship first,
since I couldn't be battery-less during the exchange.
They also have refilled UtraBay batteries for a good price.

mahto

thinkpad-request@stderr.org wrote:

> I've never had much luck with batteries or so it seems. For example, I have
owned a Thinkpad 600. Enough said.

>While looking for a replacement battery for my MP3 player (of course), I
>tripped over this item
>http://batteryspace.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=1494
>It got me thinkin' though. Anybody have any thoughts?

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Received on Sat Jul 9 21:17:17 2005