Thermal runaway is kind of rare considering how many batteries are out there and how many combusted.

I think the filler is useful to give the laptop increased mechanical stiffness and better balance. And the primary hazard is with charged cells. However uncharged batteries still…

So basically the cells are dead and the memory manager will not let the unit charge at all. There is no problem then using the battery as a space filler in the laptop (which is the…

Thanks for that, Wally. It underscores how much more there is to fear from mistreated lithium cells than from the LHC.

Hacking lithium-ion battery packs is not for the uninitiated. Leave it alone. Click to expand... and how do you become initiated if you dont try ? Click to expand... Fra…

Upon battery insertion the battery manager board, if working, momentarily test charges the cells and looks for approximately 3V= If this is not met charging is disallowed and the…

What's on the battery "board"? Click to expand... The "battery board" provides control systems for "intelligent batteries". The charging controls monitor voltage, current and t…

and how do you become initiated if you dont try ? Click to expand... I think he means "uninitiated" as "someone who has likely never messed with complex electronics before." I …

I recently got in 3 dead wallstreet batteries (2 Apple made and one 3rd party). One of the Apple batteries charges in like a few minutes to 4 lights and will not boot a machine. I …

Hacking lithium-ion battery packs is not for the uninitiated. Leave it alone. Click to expand... and how do you become initiated if you dont try ?

What's on the battery "board"?

Hacking lithium-ion battery packs is not for the uninitiated. Leave it alone.

Hey, I have a Pismo battery that is shot, but since I have a couple spare clamshell batteries around i thought "their connections are the same, so lets try and do a swap. The fir…

I moved the Rage128 to the slot nearest the IDE connectors and so far it works. On to locating an ATX case to hack up and locating a hard disk larger than 3.2GB...

I don't think the Mach 64 can handle a 66 mhz slot as it's a pretty ancient card. Could the 128 be dead?

I tried it in the slot next to the shortest one. After moving it to the slot nearest the IDE ports the video appears OK on the Mach64 PCI card. The Rage128 card is still not work…

Have you tried the video card in the slower 33 mhz PCI slot instead of the 66 mhz one? My mach 64 wouldn't play nice in the faster slot but was ok in the slower.

The first time the Mach64 video card was used the picture was fine. Now it is garbled. The Rage128 card still shows no video. I did find a Radeon 7000 32MB card that should be fl…

Answer: replace the video card with a Mach64 one.

Shortly after buying my Blue/White G3 the motherboard was replaced with a Revision 2 motherboard. After disappointing results with my Beige G3, I thought I would try to get the or…

For the record: 1400, 5300 and below: 16 bit PC Card/PCMCIA only 2400, 3400: 32 bit Cardbus capable but require a hardware hack Kanga: As 3400 I think Wallstreet and above: C…

update : it works i bought a sitecome usb 2.0 cardbus card and it works just fine jaguar doesnt reconigse the vendor but it reconigses the usb ports and uses them Cl…

For the record: 1400, 5300 and below: 16 bit PC Card/PCMCIA only 2400, 3400: 32 bit Cardbus capable but require a hardware hack Kanga: As 3400 I think Wallstreet and above: …

update : it works i bought a sitecome usb 2.0 cardbus card and it works just fine jaguar doesnt reconigse the vendor but it reconigses the usb ports and uses them

no in so far i know wallstreets can do cardbus http://www.insanely-great.com/features/010823.html the kanga has problems with cardbus and the 1400 and 2400 dont support it …