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Title: Simpad Replacement Battery?
Post by: Master One on June 28, 2008, 12:51:33 am: I guess, the battery of my SIMpad SL4 died. Its condition degraded very fast recently, and after I had it not on AC power for a week, it doesn't load any more. Strangely the battery monitor shows 100%, no loading going on, and when disconnecting AC power, it turns off immediately, with normal boot on AC power restore.

I already searched on ebay, for "simpad", as well as for "CGA103450", but nothing came up concerning a battery replacement.

I already read some postings, suggesting to fiddle around with mobile batteries and cell replacements, but all that info is quite old.

What's the recommended way nowadays to give it a new life independent of AC power?
Title: Simpad Replacement Battery?
Post by: Jogi804 on June 28, 2008, 02:22:39 pm: Hi,

here you find the way to replace the batteries:

http://opensimpad.org/index.php/Accu_repla...cheap_OEM_cells (http://opensimpad.org/index.php/Accu_replacement_with_cheap_OEM_cells)

And here you find the new cells:

http://cgi.ebay.de/LI-ION-BATTERIE-CGP3450...1QQcmdZViewItem (http://cgi.ebay.de/LI-ION-BATTERIE-CGP345010-LIFEBOOK-Exxx-Sxxx-SERIE-OK_W0QQitemZ310061908973QQihZ021QQcategoryZ79520QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViem)

Greetings

Jogi
Title: Simpad Replacement Battery?
Post by: Jogi804 on June 28, 2008, 02:23:55 pm: Second link does not work

use eb**-nr: 310061908973

Greetings

Jogi
Title: Simpad Replacement Battery?
Post by: Master One on July 05, 2008, 02:30:42 pm: Any clue, if item number CGP345010 is the strongest cell for that purpose?

It would be just too great, if the replacement pack even provides a longer runtime, then the battery pack, that came with the unit at that time.
Title: Simpad Replacement Battery?
Post by: mr_nice on July 06, 2008, 04:19:53 am: Quote from: Master One
Any clue, if item number CGP345010 is the strongest cell for that purpose?

It would be just too great, if the replacement pack even provides a longer runtime, then the battery pack, that came with the unit at that time.

In this thread [1] mrdata describes a lot about different types of OEM Cells and how to get them.

best regards
mr nice

1 https://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=24370 (https://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=24370)
Title: Simpad Replacement Battery?
Post by: Master One on July 07, 2008, 04:55:55 pm: Quote from: mr_nice
Quote from: Master One
Any clue, if item number CGP345010 is the strongest cell for that purpose? It would be just too great, if the replacement pack even provides a longer runtime, then the battery pack, that came with the unit at that time.
In this thread [1] mrdata describes a lot about different types of OEM Cells and how to get them.
1 https://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=24370 (https://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=24370)
Too bad, I must have overlook that info. I just ordered 4 x CGP345010.

But nevertheless, a search for CGA103450 did not give any results on ebay (but a Google search revealed, that one CGA103450 is more than 3 times the price of a CGP345010, and not really easy to get). The mentioned "Akkus f.OLYMPUS BLL-1 PS-BLL1 HLD-2 E-1 3400mAh" would surely have been a better deal, but the only retailer on ebay that has listed that item (Akku-Kaufhaus) does not ship to Austria...
Title: Simpad Replacement Battery?
Post by: halif on July 24, 2008, 02:24:10 am: Here you got a replacement of original cells:

http://batimex.pl/towar.asp?idtowaru=1470 (http://batimex.pl/towar.asp?idtowaru=1470)

Shipment cost to EU from Poland will be about 45zł=14Euro,
single battery cost=13zł=4Euro...

If you still need them
Title: Simpad Replacement Battery?
Post by: d2a on August 18, 2008, 04:48:00 pm: Some useful info here (http://www.pdastreet.com/forums/showthread.php?t=48008) about li-ion replacement. US source of cells (http://www.batteryspace.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWCATS&Category=739) would probably fit the bill when connected in series-parallel configuration...
Title: Simpad Replacement Battery?
Post by: Master One on September 10, 2008, 05:00:55 am: I finally did the battery repair mod, using 4 x CGP345010 (which have now been laying around for some time). It was quite a hassle to disassemble the old battery pack and do the soldering on the new batteries, especially since for some reason the small inline-fuse (which I wanted to reuse) seems to have been blown. So after some more fiddling around, and removing that fuse, it finally is working again. Hopefully it is no problem to go without that fuse.