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September 17, 2012

Harvesting and Re-using Lithium Cells from Laptop Batteries

Filed under: batteries,computing,electronics,environment,hacking,HP,laptop,lithium,NiCd,re-use,recycle,repair,stuff — admin @ 6:44 pm

For more than a decade, I’ve been using a series of HP and Compaq laptops and as a result, I had accumulated a pile of expired, apparently dead batteries composed of lithium-based cells. I decided to resuscitate a couple of the old laptops for a project in Campbell River, and needed a couple of working batteries. Rather than buy new ones, I decided to crack open a few of the old ones to see if they still had any working cells that I could re-use. (more…)

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