Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/10/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The d1h battery i took apart was glued shut. It took some tedious doing with an xacto (tm) knife to open it up but patience persevered. On Oct 20, 2010, at 3:40 AM, afirkin at afirkin.com wrote: >> 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information