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From: mobo@sphinx.uchicago.edu (Samuel Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: HP110 batteries
Message-ID: <2157@sphinx.uchicago.edu>
Date: Sat, 8-Aug-87 23:44:36 EDT
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In article <2156@sphinx.uchicago.edu> moku@sphinx.UUCP (Mark Francillon) writes:
>
>     I've just picked up a (barely) used hp110.  The problem at
>this point is that the battery refuses to keep a charge (I unplug
>ac, screen goes blank; reconnect ac, it says 0% charge).  The
>manual's got all these skull-and-crossbones warnings about the
>battery not being a user-replaceable part.  Can someone out there
>who's been down this road before tell me what the options are?
>Is there somewhere I can get a new battery as a spare part and
>install it myself?  If not, what are the chances at this point of
>finding an hp dealer who admits 110s exist and could fix one?
>
Me too.  Does anyone with HP portable experience know whether any
of the subsequent versions of the HP laptops use the same battery?
According to the docs for the 110, the dead part is a "6-volt, 
2.5 Ah gelled lead acid battery pack".  Sound familiar?  They also
suggest that you "do not attempt to incinerate or mutilate the 
battery pack" . . . I haven't yet, but I'm about to.

Samuel Wilson         ..ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!mobo
                            FOTMOBO@UCHMVS1.Bitnet
                                      MCI: SWILSON
University of Chicago, Division of Social Sciences