[NTLK] Advice on recelling an eMate300 battery pack

[Elias Basse]

Higher mah is good and will give longer use.  I use 2600mah cells in my 2100 and 1800 in the eMate I picked up recently it just takes longer to charge.

Best Regards,
Elias

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> On Oct 23, 2017, at 12:49 PM, Abraham Limpo <abraham at familialimpo.net> wrote:
> 
> Thanks Elias... Do you know if I can use higher mAh rating...
> 
> Varta seems to offer VH1300 replacing the VH1200 the original pack offered.
> 
> 2017-10-23 15:45 GMT+02:00 Elias Basse <kd5jfe at gmail.com>:
> 
>> Abraham,
>> 
>> To save myself the hassle of battery pack major soldering, I picked up a
>> 9.6v rc battery pack containing 8 aa cells and removed 2 cells. I then
>> wrapped it in electrical tape after soldering the connector.  This did the
>> trick and had minimal soldering.  It even contained the polyfuse to protect
>> the pack.  Be sure to check polarity but that's simple if you have a volt
>> meter that measures polarity.
>> 
>> Also the pack was only 10usd and gave me extra cells to recell a second
>> time.
>> 
>> Hope this helps,
>> 
>> Best Regards
>> Elias
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>> On Oct 23, 2017, at 7:12 AM, Abraham Limpo <abraham at familialimpo.net>
>> wrote:
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>>> Hello fellow newtonians!
>>> 
>>> I got myself (thanks to the list ;) ) a well used emate 300. The battery
>> is
>>> barely holding a charge and I would like to know if its very hard to
>> recell
>>> it and get back to the 30 hours of typing goodness.
>>> 
>>> I'm not averse to soldering components so any directions would be
>> helpful.
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Abraham
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