Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!usc!jarthur!bridge2!mips!sgi!decwrl!hayes!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: HAMER524@ruby.vcu.edu (Robert M. Hamer) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Replacement Battery for AT&T 4400 Message-ID: <8920@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 13 Jun 90 13:30:00 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 30 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 431, Message 5 of 11 On Tue, 12 Jun 90 18:31:40 CDT Curt Squires writes: >I'm looking for a replacement battery for an AT&T model 4400 cordless >phone. The battery is 3.6v 270 mA (3 cells arranged in pyramid >fashion). I'd like to find a mfg&model number and/or a place I could >order it by phone. (I haven't actually seen the phone, so I might not >have all the details.) Thank you.. Having recently had a cordless phone die, and after asking the Digest what might be the problem, and after having decided that the NiCad Battery was the problem, I went looking for a replacement. It is a Panasonic cordless phone, and used a 3.6v 270 mA replacement. The original battery is flat, and consists of three cells, each about the size of a very thick quarter, shrink-wrapped together in a pyramid fashion. I called Panasonic, and they gave me the name of a local electronic shop that they said carried a replacement. I went to the shop, and they did not have a physically identically replacement, but they had a 3.6v 270 mA replacement that had three cylindrical barral-shaped cells, each about 1 inch long and maybe half an inch thick, shrink- wrapped together. They assured me it would fit in the phone even though it was not physically the same shape as the original. I bought it; cost about $12. It fits. And works. Yesterday, I happened to be in an AT&T store, and saw the identical battary pack for sale at $13. Its packaging claimed to work in all AT&T cordless phones.