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| I am really growing to love my hpcs...and find more and more uses for them but they would become infinitely more useful if I only had to recharge them every 3 or 4 days. Aside from adding an external battery is there any option to put inside the 880 that will give it 16 or more hours per charge?
Edited by pengyou 2007-09-26 11:15 AM
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Global Moderator H/PC Guru Posts: | 7,188 |
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| No...only one battery pack available...the standard MC-BA11A
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| Rich,
Do you know what the cell type used in the 800/880 is?
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H/PC Oracle Posts: | 16,175 |
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| afaik it is not the 18650  |
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| The picture all but ruled that out, other cells can be sourced though. |
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| The cells are kind of rectangular, and there are 3 of them wired in series...each being 3.7V. They measure approximately 50mm long, 33mm wide, and 10mm thick. Here is a picture of them...
I was thinking of trying to build a battery pack using AAA batteries (9 total ) wired in a series-parallel configuration. Edited by Rich Hawley 2007-09-26 4:42 PM
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| Beneath the blue wrapping are there 3/4 cells or is it one single chemical comartment in each of the three modules? |
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Global Moderator H/PC Guru Posts: | 7,188 |
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| One single chemical compartment....something like the Sanyo Prismatic LION cell UF103450P. I think that would be a good match...
Rich
Edited by Rich Hawley 2007-09-26 7:09 PM
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H/PC Philosopher Posts: | 355 |
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| how do these compare with the original in terms of time can be used? also cost?
Edited by pengyou 2007-09-27 2:16 AM
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Global Moderator H/PC Guru Posts: | 7,188 |
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| Not worth the rebuild, not significantly greater in capacity...just something that could be used as a last resort if the BA11s were not available any longer.... |
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Subscribers H/PC Vanguard Posts: | 3,685 |
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| One good idea is to make an external battery with rechargeable batteries AA or AAA...
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H/PC Philosopher Posts: | 355 |
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| What about rechargeable D cells? I see many that are 10k mamps. They are a little bigger than AA cells but you will need fewer of them. |
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H/PC Philosopher Posts: | 355 |
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| Then again there are also some li-ion batteries for power tools that come in 9, 12 or a variety of voltages, have an acceptable case - would probably benefit with a spray of black paint and can be easily replaced. |
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