Well done -- congratulations! As you noted, it's not so much hard as it is tedious, with lots of little steps along the way. But it's well worth doing, given that a $10 tube can re…

SUCCESS! It was a tricky thing to do, but everything worked fine. I agree that you should work slowly and carefully. I managed to not break either bulb (old & new). The…

If you have trouble starting it up in the future, try the reset button on the back. I've had to prod that a couple of times to get my Lombard to wake up.

Good info there tomlee59. I got two hours of solid websurfing out of my $20 as-is Lombard battery last night on my first test run, but it went dead with no warning and the battery…

Just work slowly and carefully, and you'll be fine. Never force anything, don't bend the tube. It's not super-fragile, but do be careful. It can actually flex a bit, so no need to …

It lives! { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "lightbox_previous": "Previous", "lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Ple…

the battery needs to be fully charged, then discharged to shutdown, a couple of times. Click to expand... I have done this once, but I'll try it a couple more times. It seems …

Bunsen was right! I unplugged my batteries (both were put in the machine) and plugged the PRAM battery back, left it overnight, and the thing powers up without the battery being un…

With most lithium-ion packs, the fuel gauge software is adaptive. It needs a training period to get properly calibrated for a given set of cells. During that training period, the b…

It appears that Battery Reset is not compatible with Pismos unfortunately, but good try. I wish I could just figure out what causes the mAh number to go up and do it.

I have not tried that yet. I'll see what happens later tonight. I have been using Battery Health Monitor in Mac OS X to see the mAh values.

Have you tried Battery Reset?

...So do I un solder the clamshell batteries to fit the pismo battery board or not. I'm afraid to do that because I do not want to screw something up so bad. Click to expand... …

If you leave it plugged in and off, with the main battery removed, and the motherboard battery plugged in, sometimes you can get a charge into the motherboard battery.

Holy Smokes it works! My gosh, I got it for a steal (literally...well not that I performed anything illegal) cuz it was not powering up. My goodness, thanks readers! Now it needs a…

Also, it might be good to read the firewire section of http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1431 [] ]'>

Find the PRAM battery cable, its on the right side under the keyboard right above the back of where the disk drive ends, its a red and white cable. Unplug the battery and try again…

Would a bad internal battery affect it from starting up? Also I plugged the battery in and it doesn't seem to be charging. I'm tempted to think it's a Power unit issue, just wonder…

try lifting the kbd up, and disconnecting the internal battery. the psu is compatible.

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…

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 …

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.