Need recommendation for replacement battery on Wallstreet PB

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Need recommendation for replacement battery on Wallstreet PB

I have a PB G3 Series Wallstreet (292MHz, family M4753) for which I need to replace the battery. Other World Computing has a replacement for $130. There is also lots of others in the $60 to $90 range. This is only for occasional use. 2 hours run time is fine. Is there any way to know if any of these less expensive batteries are OK? Thanks
Owen

1.83GHz Intel mini, PB G3 Series (wallstreet, OS 9.2), Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Posted on Jan 11, 2008 9:06 PM

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Answer 1

Jan 12, 2008 9:03 AM in response to Owen Farmer

"Batteries Plus" franchises across the U.S have the ability to re-cell your current batteries, as an additional option.

Apple has not made these batteries in several years, so any Apple-branded battery you buy without a warranty will have limited capability and/or useful life.

I also hate to buy new tires for my car, but sometimes there is just no inexpensive alternative. If you want to use it, you have to replace those consumables from time-to-time, and they are not cheap.

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Owen Farmer Author

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Jan 12, 2008 12:26 PM in response to Grant Bennet-Alder

Thanks for the info. I've just done a google search on "re-cell batteries". There appear to be lots of companies in this business. Batteries Plus seems to be a fairly big company. Have you used them? Also, I understand that there are electronics in the battery that count the number of recycles and then shut the battery down (to prevent fires?). Such a counter would need to be reset after re-celling, which, hopefully, Bateries Plus would do.
Owen

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Answer 3

Feb 11, 2008 2:21 PM in response to Grant Bennet-Alder

I checked with my local Batteries Plus about re-celling and they looked at me as if I were nuts. So maybe they don't do it anymore.

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Answer 4

Feb 11, 2008 3:12 PM in response to Sludgedragon

Batteries Plus is a franchise. I asked my local (West of Boston) franchise what the majority of its business was, and they pointed to the shop table where several laptop batteries were being re-built and explained they replace the cells in laptop batteries. They also had displays of coin batteries, alarm system backup batteries, and other specialty batteries.

If you got the guy who started today, he might have heard "Re-Sell old batteries" and thought you were strange. Who would buy used-up old batteries? Maybe it's just not a big business where you are, or maybe they have not signed up for the training yet.

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