Unfortunately...(was: 9114B battery replacement: equivalents?) Message #14 Posted by Vieira, Luiz C (Brazil) on 5 Aug 2005, 4:26 p.m., in response to message #13 by Vieira, Luiz C. (Brazil)
Hi, all;
The person who assured me he had a sealed 2800mAh battery had, in fact, a 1300mAh. I took it anyway and asked for another, 2500mAh or more. As I`m waiting for a new one, I decided to test the 1300mAh and I assembled it in place of the original 2400mAh battery. The fact is that the 9114B is actually working fine. I simply plugged the newly bought battery, connected the pack in the standard charger and inserted the battery pack in the 9114B battery compartment. The three LED's that indicate the battery charge did not even blink when the unit was turned on, all three LED`s on as well. With the HP41 connected to the 9114B (HPIL), one disk in place, I XEQ`ted DIR and the contents list was shown perfectly fine. As the battery is new, I accepted the mid-charge (two LED`s on, upper LED off) monitoring. Also, as the battery is about half the `ampacity` (sorry, no better word for that... anyway, what is the word for ampère capacity?), I must expect more charging cycles and a continuous check for temeperature while charging (higher charge current than the one specified as nominal). Well, at least I`ll keep it for necessary operation while some 2500mAh battery comes to take place.
Hope this is all for now. I`ll take a picture of the battery pack with the new 1300mAh battery inside of it later.
Best regards and thank you all, again.
Luiz (Brazil)
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