Laptop Battery Hack! Don't Buy A New One!

its almost as though you only have to look at the submitter and the name to give it a 5 stars for anything of kipkay, you dont have to watch it. top quality stuff as usual

I bet you made this video to make $109 so you can buy the battery pack! ha! I caught you!

Just remember guys! if this blows up inside your laptop or anything else happens there is no warranty

.....pay 79 more dollars and ensure my safety, or...... waste my time and have a chance of blowing my hand of......... im gunna have to go with remaking the batterie myself it seems to be the better answer

Lol, nice.

You better discover how to make money and not how to save them

go through all that, I just bought my Solo battery on ebay brand new for $41.50 to my door!

A few weeks ago I checked and you had made 16 or 17 thousand and now your up to $22,000! How many more ideas do you have? Your are a legend at my house anyway.

dude your making 20,000 dollars off of videos

thx for the info. screw you yahoo, not buying that battery from you damn webstore garbage.

fun project and not getting rip off.

5 Stars!!!

you saved 70 bucks but u wasted like 3 days of ur life what a loser

fcukin up ur laptop for 70 dollars just shows how cheap u r. go share ur cheap azz ideas with some1 cheap like u...

but that would void the warrenty.
still wanna save 70 bucks?

if he had the charger the whole time, how come he just couldnt have charged the OLD battery, i was actually amazed by this, but then he charged the new one, why couldnt he have just done this the first time?

So a lot of people would not even be able to buy spare parts! Stupid company anyway.

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But one thing to consider. Can your charger charge the battery to the new rating? Assuming the old battery is only 600mAh and you now put in a 2300mAh, will it be able to charge till the max? Will it get too hot. To be safe, keep it to the orignal rating as possible.

is my hero. How could one man be so smart?

good one!

Y cannot i read the comments here. please someone help

but i ruined the plastic cover of my HP battery (luckily it was spoilt). You guys must be extra careful with that plastic cover, its fragile! BTW my battery contains 12 large 18650 batteries!

Not a bad deal...........but by the time you pay for gas to and from the store, and factor in how valuable your time is.....(some peoples time is more important than others) I think the 70.00 extra dollars is well spent. (Not to mention the fact that you may have to purchase a soldering iron as well).

it save money for kids snack,

How much? just $37? soldering iron $20 eye glasses $5 battery $37 altogether $62 dont forget to count emergency use for hospital fee , old batteries' are never safe

Man I love your videos, you certainly deserve the money. Everything is described and easy to follow.

awsome vid!

making us all money!

Your videos are awesome. You should be in advertisements because your voice sounds professional. Plus it is fast and keeps people motivated. 5 stars. What kind of program do you use to edit the videos and record your voice?

do you know everything?

Do you know whether your trick applies to acer or other laptops? Do all batterries look alike from inside?

I am facing the same problem with my acer battery but was a bit not sure whether to open it as I was afraid to loose my warrenty.

Any suggestions?

Keep on the good work!
Shalom

Wow...that is cool....too bad i got a battery yesterday :(

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I study electronics in a university and I think your videos are very interesting and educational. They give me great ideas every now and then. Just keep 'em coming!

Really well made video

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Not that jumping guy

hi i'm from india poor country its useful to me thanks a lot we welcome more like this

thx for the idea, btw is that some kind gas soldering iron ?
p.s. you should mace a page with tools you're using ;) that would help alot cause my iron now works like a freezer.

Kipkay your the man.your so Goooooooood. You need to be in television man.
Do you have anything about cable tv hack?

That sure seems like a lot of work, but hey, we save 72 bugs :-)

It's called battery renew or recondition. Many companies do this as a service!

why didnt you apply power to the yellow batteries??

I watched this clip twice and then flipped over the lap-top, removing the battery and started to disassemble it. That was not easily done. It's a hp f2019a that can be found for 85$. It contains 8 Li+ batteries and they are taking up the whole space. There was no way that I could get them out and still have the casing left intact to put new into. The worst part is that the battery worked perfectly before I started and now it is broken.

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Ever think of doing voice over for radio??

Sure got the fast talk down, haha.

Great video, though, and since the battery in my toshiba is dead, gueass what

I'm gonna do?? Thx

but
a few days of waiting for the batteries to be delivered, had been wasted
need to buy a sodering iron + wire
buying a safety glasses
risk yourself of playing with a little potential bomb
what if they're not compatible .. or the batteries can hold the power for less time than what you expected ( you can't return the batteries at this moment )
then you're in deep sh!t
you got no warranty ( your house could get burned over night because the batteries got shorting ) .. sorry .. don't call Dell.. .. because they would call you " a "dumb stupid idiot" go to hell

I always wondered what was going on inside those batteries! Thanks Kipkay!

I am in need of a new one but can't afford it. I'm do this one! Thanks Kipkay!

If you do something wrong the entire laptop may burn! And than we can talk about $... haha.. Good luck anyway!

5 Stars over and over for Kipkay. Very nicely done and well presented. I look forward to videos from Kipkay on Metacafe. Always nice and interesting. Keep it up!

Kip my friend,
you've done it again! Great hack...and I was glad to feature it on The Daily Hack. Keep up the good work!
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but wait a minute??? What about an hp laptop?

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this was kind of like the 9volt battery hack you made only this time instead of AAAA batteries (oh yeah they sell those tiny batteries at radioshack) You get double powered AA batteries. 5 stars+

useful information, thank you!

you should buy new one .it's dangerous to do it by yourself. buy a cheaper one from udtek.com.

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Wow, that's great if you know how to... but if you want to risk your laptop then do it.....

idea to save money, this is so informative

Thank you so much I like this.

Hi ya,
I'm amazed at how many of our essential technostuff can be fixed without paying for new or reconditioned stuff. But I always drew the line at laptop batteries, even though I refill printer and copier cartridges, etc. Thanks for the info! My laptop battery is practically dead, so if I mess up, there's no great loss.
thanks again!
Diahni

Those very big bateries are very old also, i can't do that whit a 2009 laptop batery

even the batteries from well known companies are susceptible to the danger of overheating and explosion.....so i dont find it really a great job....especially in laptops...think abt the cost of the laptop not the batteries....

This video really amazing, thanks for the idea

thanx man for that

very well shown thank you for the tips keep them coming.

Same as soldering?

The problem with most laptop batteries is they have a circuit which prevents charging of the battery to full power after a certain number of charges, so you have to find out how to reset that counter if you want this technique to work as expected.

hey watch this it's funny

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This can explode specially if you don't know what you're doing.

Goodluck.

i know this is is not good i did this on a OLD powerbook g3 with os9 and killed it and had to buy another mac so i bought a mac book pro. WARNING! this is NOT safe ! I would only do this if you have billions of $$$$$$ to buy a new mac i don't.

can i do this on my mac? the battery life S**ks .

shouldi wait til it dies or do it ow?

I almost bought a new one, so, i watch your video, i did it, and....... bualaaa!!!!

I`m using my pc, and it works perfectly and normaly, thanks man, for sure you deserve 5 stars, thanxxx.....

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good job

I'll try it!

I wish I'd known of this mod before I ordered mine! :( I'll repair my old one and keep it as a spare.

I like this video, but you talked way too fast and towards the middle part of the video I was in question to what exactly you were doing with the batteries.

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i found here 2500 MaH batterys and i did this

is one of the best its easy cheap and works only you should be carfull with the bateries

you the man! very inteligent. i can never get tired of your videos. thanks much.

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This i like.. ill be doing this on my ol' laptop.. thou you do have alot of misinformation on your other videos..

We can offer high quality laptop battery and good price

i was about to throw my laptop away because i thought it was broken. this video saved my life!

Do u think these could work in a mac ???

Now I will tell you how to use a laptop battery better :
Do not short circuit battery terminals. Keep battery terminals away from metal objects.
* Do not reverse the voltage.
* Do not expose the battery to moisture or rain.
* Do not drop, hit or otherwise abuse the battery as this may result in the exposure of the cell contents, which are corrosive.
* Do not incinerate or expose battery to extreme heat, which may result in an explosion.
* Do not leave batteries in device for long periods of time when device is not being used.
* Do not disassemble or try to modify the battery pack.

I recently received a 4 years old HP laptop and the battery is wore out so I took it apart like you did but there was no AA batteries inside. Instead, I found some weird looking blocks with some sort liquid... how do I hack those?

my i book g4 has a singlecell!!!!!

i have buy a new battery on .look so good,but i think your tips very great

I did that many times with different devices such as video cameras and cordless phones

speaking of hacking and laptops you should try to make a hack-top. i have one tucked away incase of a emergency

iz there anyone who has tried that trick.it works or not .telll me by reply

This is my most faivorite video of yours... Gateway laptops are pretty old.. Do you know also how to hack a newer laptops baterry?

This worked beautifully on my Inspiron 1100 battery. With this, and a processor swap (from the stock desktop Celeron to a cool and low-power Pentium M), I got crazy battery life.

Mind you, I did add four extra batteries to the mix in parallel with the four banks of two (for a sum of 3px4s) of the 18x65mm 3.7v 2600mAh batteries Tenergy puts out. The resulting 7800mAh of power is enough to run my lappie for three hours - from the 30 minutes I was getting before, all for less than the cost of a fresh stock battery (4300mAh).

Note: You can have as many batteries as your battery case can fit, so long as (1) the total output voltage is the same, and (2) the cells in serial are homogenous (ie: 3->3->3, not 3->2->3).

So, for example, if your pack can hold 13 batteries, your pack's voltage should be 10.8v, and your batteries are 3.6v, your serial line should have three cells (10.8v/3.6v=3), and your parallel cells should have four batteries each (floor(13/3)=4), for a total of 12 batteries.

kipkay you can afford that lol nice stuff eeee they can explode ive heard that mabye a bit to risky for me

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Looks pretty easy....but aren't laptop batteries different in shapes/sizes/cell capacities? I went ahead and got a new laptoptop battery from simplemicro.com as I was scared to try this out....but then again, that's just me :)

Another quality vid, KK....

Haha, certainly wouldnt recommend this, i remeber soldering a couple of those little watch batteries together and the explosion scared the sh*te out of me! lol

Don't got too high or you'll fry your computer!

Exactely what i need Kipklay....Boost my Batery ,,,,,Great ,,,5 Stars.

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Trying to do this hack, but where do you go to buy lithium batteries?

now i can fix my laptop !!!
from e-laptop-battery.com

but i dont have your email address so i will give you mine so i can contact you about this oppertunity.

Hi Kipkay

i live in the uk and have a Hp nx6110 laptop and i need a replacement battery i looked at this hack and thought im getting me some lithium ion batteries but here in the uk i cant seem to get any rechargable ones. is there any online stores that sell rechargable lithium ion battieries.

but id rather pay extra $70 than go through all the trouble..oh and blow my hand off

I did this with my norelco triple head shaver. Three radio shack AA nickel cads. I saved $100 because you would have to buy a new shaver otherwise.

How do you open the battery with these newer models from Acer and Toshiba, the battery is completely sealed, is there a way ?

how come this video has been seen so many times and mine hasn't???????

You just solved my laptop problem

See this cool video,click on this link!:
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amazing!!

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! Inventor & Master of homemade solutions !

Very useful Kipkay... as always :)

Tech is right lithium batteries are crazy dangerous and using a type that is incompatible with the charge circuit or the batteries shorting can result in the batteries building up hydrogen gas within the cell to the point it will cause the cell to burst and burn.

Andy I encourage you to remove this as this could be held civilly or even criminally liable for someone burning down their house or killing themselves because of this. Not to mention the guild that would go along with it.

you saved 67 bucks..but spent HOURS....not worth it man....no way...pay the 109...you got the box for free...didn't ya?

dude.....you took out your battery from right and put back in from left ??? huh??

Thanks Kipkay, this sounds like a great project but you are so right to warn about the dangers of soldering LiOn cells. So, before attempting - would you give us some guidance on what wattage your soldering iron is - and what size rosen core you used? Many thanks.

I just can't belive it... how can anybody be SO smart?? Ur great kipkay, keep up the good work

A Lithium Battery Cell has an average capacity of about 2000Mah and they cost around $3.

next show me a video where a lithium ion battery explodes

man do u know everything now works or something , ur my hero man thx ><

NO MORE $150 BATTERIES... THANKS!!!!

Delivery+charging=a few day`s
Running to a local best buy=half hour
Stupid!For a couple dollars

I love finding ways around the system. Great video Kip!

You Rock! 5+

all of it

my own is dead. i will do it

Just saw this featured on Engadget.com today. Way to go, Kipkay! Next thing you know you'll have your own TV show. Here's the link:

http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/26/build-your-own-laptop-battery-or-not/

Another very cool hack. Question: How long does that take to do?

to get that battery case open without nicking it all up?

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very smart

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i tried this method and it ruined my logic board, i was lucky it didn't blow the thing up. macs use a different kind of battery system. thanks kipkay i ended up spending over $1000,00 to get a new laptop logicboard. you scammed me.

i tried this and it ruined my logic board, i had to spend over $1000.00 to get a new logic board and processor for my mac, your suggestion did not work for me due to macs use different systems.

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windows is enough fucked up as it is. why F**king it up even more?

i swear kip you have to be the smartest and most creative person in the world. keep up the good work!!