[SPARCbook] external battery

[Ken Hansen]

Why not just get a 12 volt external battery?

Granted, the laptop would not "know" as much about
remaining power level, etc. but it would be
inexpensive.

Ken

--- Miles Nordin <carton at Ivy.NET> wrote:
> > I looked into [replacing cells], but cannot figure
> out how to open the casing,
> 
> 1. there is a CPU inside the battery pack.
> 2. the external and internal battery contacts are
> mechanically 
>    and electrically identical.
> 3. doesn't Tadpole sell an external case into which
> you must put your own NiCd 
>    cells?  this thing would be great for using the
> SparcBook past its EOL, 
>    if you could find one of them.
> 
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=====
Ken
n2vip at yahoo.com

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