10 Apr
2001
10 Apr
'01
10:23 p.m.
Bill,
It will probably work since the charging voltage of the battery is
certainly higher than the 15 volts that you would get from using alkaline
or carbon-zinc batteries.
But why take a chance? Take the battery pack to Batteries Plus or one of
the other battery rebuilders and have them replace the dead cells with new
cells. They can take it apart and remove the old cells and weld the straps
and terminals back onto the new cells and reassemble the pack and make it
work exactly like the original battery. FWIW I insist on the Japanese made
Sanyo cells, I've had VERY good luck with them. Don't let them stick you
with some no name Chinese or Mexican made crap.
Joe
At 02:36 PM 4/10/01 -0400, you wrote:
I've started messing around with a GRiDPAD 1910 I
got a couple of years ago. Works fine on AC using
the brick that came with it, but the two battery
packs I got with it are dead. They won't take a
charge, either in the machine or connected directly
to the brick (they have a socket for this). The specs
printed on the batteries list 12 volts, 1Ah. I opened
one of the packs and the contents look very much like
10 AA batteries.
I'm wondering if I can replace the contents of the
battery pack with 10 AAs. The specs printed on the AC
brick say it produces 17.25 volts at 2A. If I replace
the contents of the battery pack with 10 AAs, I figure
I'll get around 15 volts. Anybody want to hazard a
guess as to whether this will work?
Thanks,
Bill Sudbrink