First post, by keenmaster486
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Hey guys,
I'm looking into rebuilding the battery for my IBM Thinkpad 385XD, as it's quite dead and I don't want to spend $80 on a new battery. The new battery claims to be 4400 mAh, so if I could get as much or more capacity than that then that would be great.
I hear a lot about 18650 Li-Ion cells. Are those what this battery uses? How do I find out?
I've rebuilt a battery before but it was NIMH and I just used consumer AAs and stuffed as many of them as I could get in there. It worked but not very well (lasted for 30 min).
Has anyone done a Li-Ion battery before, or better yet a similar or identical one by IBM, who could give me some advice? Thanks!
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