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post #1 of 7
2/2/03 at 9:27pm
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My understanding for the 5660:

A battery for the dual-battery setup is $125.
A secondary primary is $100.

What advantages, besides not having to turn off the system, does getting a dual-setup have over another primary? Does it last longer or anything?

Thanks.
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post #2 of 7
2/2/03 at 9:46pm
actually, it lasts a bit shorter, but if you have two primaries, you'd have to turn the system off, put the battery in, then turn it back on. To put in a new primary battery in on the 5660 requires removing a screw while putting it in an 8886/7 requires removing 4.

By having a dual setup, it utilizes the extra bay.

I think this has been asked before...here:
http://sagerforums.com/forums/showth...=&threadid=605
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post #3 of 7
2/2/03 at 10:26pm
having two batteries runs slower then one?
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post #4 of 7
2/2/03 at 11:12pm
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Originally posted by opusagogo
having two batteries runs slower then one?
The primary battery has more mAH than the secondary battery (4000mAH vs 3400mAH). So, if you get 2 primary batteries, you get 8000 mAH, if you get the dual battery setup, you get 7400mAH (7-8% less), but can use them together at the same time.
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post #5 of 7
2/3/03 at 1:48am
I was trying to think of a way to solve the 8886/7 battery thing where you have to take out the dead battery and put in a second primary one... I don't know enough about the technical stuff behind switching to a second battery without shutting down or having a power interruption. Anyone a hardware expert?
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post #6 of 7
2/3/03 at 1:14pm
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Alright, stupid me again.

I thought getting the dual meant you couldn't have a cd-drive in at the same time :P Of course I looked now and saw you can put the dual in place of the floppy. Duh.

Thanks for the answers anyways.
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post #7 of 7
2/3/03 at 1:26pm
You are quite welcome :-) Yeah, in fact, I don't think you can put the battery in the other bay... I think it only works in the floppy disk bay (otherwise you could have a tripple battery setup, lol).
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