[NTLK] The death of a MessagePad 2000 battery

Jeremy O'Brien obrien654j at gmail.com
Sun Jan 31 16:35:27 EST 2010


To each his own. I am looking forward to when I can purchase the battery
tray.

On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 07:35:33PM -0200, robinson pereira wrote:
> I have the battery tray. I am using AA´s.
> But I need 8 batteries, to use 4 when the other 4 are on recharging.
> I think is much better just put the newton on the charger....
> 
> 
> 2010/1/31 Jeremy O'Brien <obrien654j at gmail.com>
> 
> > Why not consider buying a battery caddy so you can just use AA's?
> >
> > On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 07:04:37PM -0200, robinson pereira wrote:
> > > I purchased a sealed newton rechargeable battery, new, in box, in 2007.
> > From
> > > some guy in England. Now I want another, but it is very hard to find...
> > >
> > > 2010/1/31 Jeremy O'Brien <obrien654j at gmail.com>
> > >
> > > > OK, so it worked. But why did it work? Magic newton voo doo?
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 04:37:55AM -0500, Woo wrote:
> > > > > Wrap it air-tight in a ziplock bag,
> > > > > put it in the freezer for 1-2 hrs.,
> > > > > take out of bag, make sure no condensation on batt. terminals,
> > > > > put into Newt and recharge overnight.
> > > > > HTH.
> > > > >
> > > > > I've bought 'dead' batts and got some use after this trick. :) YMMV.
> > > > >
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