laptop battery cell replacement..

[phatfil]

Hi folks, has anyone replaced the cells in a lappy batterypack?  my ol sony (i7) lappy's battery pack is dead new ones are prohibitively expensive, and cracking the case reveals its a number of 18650  cells soldered together..

SO.....  is it just a case of pulling the cells de soldering and resoldering new cells in place?? or is there a lot of gotcha's im overlooking?? 

TIA

[phtumshk]

Its just a case of putting them back however they come out, Ive seen them soldered and some spotted.
Never put 1 back together tho just gutted them for cells for me torches.
Plenty videos on you toob to give you a heads up.
ecolux sells tabbed batteries for around £4 to 5 a battery (sony brand).
Good luck.

[*-SARIN-*]

Ebay £15-£30.

[phatfil]

Dec 1, 2015 23:51:34 GMT *-SARIN-* said:

Ebay £15-£30.

for what??

i shall have a look see on the webby and have a go then , cheers

[mart166]

Remember the cells are still useful. An ex member of here acquired a load of old laptop batteries and gave them out for free to members, mine still power my Vamo fine, although not with the life of a shiny new bat.

MP

[*-SARIN-*]

Dec 2, 2015 0:51:38 GMT phatfil said:

Dec 1, 2015 23:51:34 GMT *-SARIN-* said:

Ebay £15-£30.

for what??

i shall have a look see on the webby and have a go then , cheers

For a replacement laptop battery pack.  You would be amazed at how little a patterned one is compared to an original.

[catface26]

Don't buy cheap laptop batteries from EBay!

They will last 5 minutes and hold no charge.

[*-SARIN-*]

Dec 2, 2015 14:49:34 GMT catface26 said:

Don't buy cheap laptop batteries from EBay!

They will last 5 minutes and hold no charge.

Ok buy them from amazon then, makes no difference, unbranded laptop batteries use the same cells as the original ones.

[catface26]

Dec 2, 2015 15:09:38 GMT *-SARIN-* said:

Dec 2, 2015 14:49:34 GMT catface26 said:

Don't buy cheap laptop batteries from EBay!

They will last 5 minutes and hold no charge.

Ok buy them from amazon then, makes no difference, unbranded laptop batteries use the same cells as the original ones.

They really don't! I bought one once from eBay and it lasted for about an hour. Then a month later it just packed up. Know plenty of people with similar experience.

www.laptopsandspares.com

This company is where a friend who owns a PC repair shop gets his batteries from. I've had a spare from there that was just as good as an original.

[phatfil]

I shall check the www.laptopsandspares.com site out, i did ebay search for my sony vaio 4 cell battery (2hours life if im lucky before it died) and iirc £179 was the pricetag.. so its been running on a/c power for a couple of years now,,

out of interest i cracked the battery case and had a look see inside which led to the original Q

If i can source a battery pack for £30 i will gladly pay the premium but £179 FRO! (something right off)

[mart166]

This no help just a comment, had a brilliant phone many years ago (sony Z5), battery died, bought 2 for bargain price on fleabay, it lasted another 2 years, then had to go local markets etc, £14 wasted on another months use, it's a lottery, some good some bad, also same story with camera. Point is good cheap bats available but you never know, and remember about charging them, these days rather spend the money

MP

[mart166]

ps just to add, if it goes s**t and burns house down, rather sue sony than guy on stall, just a thought

MP

[djs]

I have bought replacement laptop batteries over the years. Got to go with a pukka company though.

I've been tempted to rebuild one using new cells but never done it as yet.

£179 is crazy money.... as you say. A good one should be under £50. Unless if you have an older laptop. It's the new models that are most expensive and attract the scam-boys.