Hi,
Haven't visited the forum in a while.
I am trying to repair three Powerbooks (140/160/180) which I bought from eBay as a lot for a cheap price. All of them work well after some simple hardware fixes (cable reseat, removing main batteries, removing faulty hard drives / modem / memory modules which were probably causing shorts), just that the CMOS batteries are long dead. The design uses a Panasonic VL2320/UL2320 3V 30mAh rechargeable lithium-ion coin cell battery. When searching eBay I found the following close matches:
+ VL2330 (3V, 50mAh)
+ ML2032 (3V, 65mAh)
+ ML1220 (3V, 15mAh)
Is it possible to replace the original battery with either the VL2330 or the ML2032? I seldom care when I replace CMOS battery, but in this case since it's rechargeable I just want to make sure everything is correct. Don't want the thing to explode and destroy my vintage Powerbook.
Another thing, for these rechargeable batteries, sometimes the specs say "lithium", sometimes "lithium-ion". Does the difference matter, or is it just some difference in the way the specs are written? My research shows that most lithium batteries are not rechargeable, so "lithium" is probably referring to "lithium-ion". But just want to be sure
Haven't visited the forum in a while.
I am trying to repair three Powerbooks (140/160/180) which I bought from eBay as a lot for a cheap price. All of them work well after some simple hardware fixes (cable reseat, removing main batteries, removing faulty hard drives / modem / memory modules which were probably causing shorts), just that the CMOS batteries are long dead. The design uses a Panasonic VL2320/UL2320 3V 30mAh rechargeable lithium-ion coin cell battery. When searching eBay I found the following close matches:
+ VL2330 (3V, 50mAh)
+ ML2032 (3V, 65mAh)
+ ML1220 (3V, 15mAh)
Is it possible to replace the original battery with either the VL2330 or the ML2032? I seldom care when I replace CMOS battery, but in this case since it's rechargeable I just want to make sure everything is correct. Don't want the thing to explode and destroy my vintage Powerbook.
Another thing, for these rechargeable batteries, sometimes the specs say "lithium", sometimes "lithium-ion". Does the difference matter, or is it just some difference in the way the specs are written? My research shows that most lithium batteries are not rechargeable, so "lithium" is probably referring to "lithium-ion". But just want to be sure
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