[Leica] DMR do-it-yourself battery refurbishment

[afirkin at afirkin.com (afirkin at afirkin.com)]

> having replaced the cells in two quantium turbo batteries a leica F2 motor
> drive and a Leica D1h battery, I'm fairly confident that refurbishing a
> DMR battery is something that most people who feel comfortable with a
> soldering iron could do. The battery, or what most of us think of as "the
> battery" is just a plastic housing which holds a number of actual battery
> cells in place. These things are usually not proprietary and some place
> like Maxxprod (http://www.maxxprod.com/mpi/mpi-8a.html) can probaby hook
> you up with a set of the actual batteries to put in the plastic case.
>
> Googling around I may have found a photo of someone who's done it:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/2aj7s3k
>
> though i don't know what the original dmr battery looks like -- it's a
> question of finding the right replacement modules, removing the dead ones,
> and soldering on new ones.
>
> If someone's got a dead battery they'd loan out I'm willing to have a go
> at cracking it open, though I'm sure there are people on this list more
> qualified than me -- electrical engineers even.
>
> kyle

I played with mine, and its not easy to open the caseing. That said, its
clearly not impossible and the assembly would be re-soldered with plastic
solder as well.

Cheers

Alastair