Laptop Battery

[Meursault00]

I have an old Fujistu C-5130. 700 mhz cpu, 4 gb harddrive, 32mb memory, from the golden year of 1999.

Anyways, my problem isn't with the laptop itself, it's with the battery. It's dead, and it's impossible to find any spares or generic brands. So I'm really left with one option that stops short of buying a new laptop, opening up the battery.

Has anyone ever done this? Good idea, bad idea? Any pointers to take the battery apart without mutilating it and making it unusable?

I figure I can cut open the bottom (the side that faces the motherboard) and then do my work through that hole, then cover it with a fiberglass plate which I can remove later on if I need to. I plan to replace the dead cells with 1.2 V AA Lithium batteries (8).

Will there be any effects on my laptop's life/performance if I increase the voltage of the batter by adding more batteries? Say I put in 10, or 13 batteries, what will happen?

[Teichgraeber]

Pleese if you wanna do that be REALLY Carefull.Means just replace the dead cells with the same type Exactly the same and if 8 cells inside dont add others PLZ it can burn your laptop or the cells may explode so pleeeeeze be carefull.Thx

[MattxMosh]

Talk about being Raped.

$400ish

http://www.batteryselection.com/Laptop/htm/asp_Laptop_batteries/modelid_21558/mth/Fujitsu_LifeBook_C5130.aspx

$188

http://www.atbatt.com/laptop-batteries/b/Fujitsu/M/LifeBook_C5130.asp

$300

http://www.brilliantstore.com/battery/comfujitsu-5760j.htm


Not that hard to find, just NOT WORTH IT.

Buy a new laptop.

[hazzer2007]

or, try and find somewhere that repairs battiers, or some one what does electronic modle aircraft that knows about battiers, they should be-able to recharge the battiers to new

[Meursault00]

http://www.electronics-lab.com/articles/Li_Ion_reconstruct/

I thought I'd share that site with you guys, great guide to changing the cells of all batteries.