PLEASE HELP! Purchased replacement battery from Ebay..Not recognized!  

verify the specs shown on both batteries (output, number of cells, ...). Possible that the battery u bought itself is defect. try returning it

cheers ...

what u wrote down should work, with more hum. so it could be that the one u bought is defect

cheers ...

Tell me everything that is written about the charger or on the battery pack (sometimes it says what kind of charger and there can be a difference).

There's a problem with old lithium-ion batteries that sit arund for too long either fully charged or under-charged: Once the resident charge drops below a certain amount, the battery can NEVER be charged again. OR once it gets charged in a heated state too many times, it oxidizes inside and the charge can not be released (so do NOT plug it in and hope it will somehow "overcome" this particular problem though sometimes the circutry won't allow it, sometimes also it WILL- causing the battery to explode!)...

Either the replacement is probably too old, or simply defective- that is the most likely scenario: it sat around on a shelf too long.

Yeah. Skip buying battery packs off ebay for older laptops- NiCad might be a safe choice for replacement, but REALLY skip the Lithium-Ion ones. After about 2 years they're gonna be garbage and pay no more than aboutu $5 for the case, so you can open it up and repack the cells yourself with new replacements from an electronics supply or distributor (Lithium-Ion do NOT come in normal battery sizes).

:P

But still, post that charger info after you look it up on Dell's site to see what ones they approve of for charging or for the laptop.

TechnoGeek, you're over-thinking. Alot of the batteries that are for sale on eBay are 3rd party replacements, they aren't neccessarily old stock. The ones that are genuine Dell, I don't know how sellers get them and are able to afford selling them for so little...could be "fell off the truck" discount. I don't know, don't care either.

The battery the OP purchased is a battery that will work with his system, in fact it's a Dell part number. It's a 9 cell battery as opposed to his original which was a 6 cell. Also, for someone with as much supposed knowledge of batteries you should also know that you can't charge a NiCd battery with a Li-Ion charger and vice versa. The Inspiron 6000 NEVER was available with NiCd batteries, only Li Ion.

The battery is defective, and if the seller is reputable should have no problem giving a refund or replacing the battery. I've bought batteries from eBay before and they've been fine. Bought a new primary for my D820 and a secondary off eBay.

Defective battery, contact the eBay seller to sort it out either a refund or a replacement. I highly discourage you from replacing the batteries inside the casing yourself unless you have expertise in that area. Stick with Li-ion as I do not see how NiCad can work with newer laptops and their chargers.

I never supposed anything mr evil- I never said that a person can plug in a nicad to a litium0ion charger. Simply that if one is looking to replace with old stock, nicad is a safer bet. your assumptions are your own.

As far as buying off the internet, I used to feel the same way, until I traveled the world and realized that there's very little guarantees on-line that anything is as it is stated, so one is usually best off if needing solid and stable solutions with relying on parts one can pick up and hold- like repacking the empty plastic cases oneself.

Your comments in the future would be better served to be addressed to the person requesting help, unless you're really that bored- in which case go elsewhere please. This is a forum for helping people. But I'm not asking for your help, thanks anyway.

Unfortunately TechnoGeek the written word does not carry the same subtleties with it that come with the spoken word. I am sorry that I mis-interpreted your statement however it was a bit ambiguous.

Since you're new here, the blue name denote moderators, red names denote admins, Greenies are community reps (power users in other words). I'm also always this irritable. Have a nice day.

Call/e-mail the seller for a new battery. Yours is defective. Those specs and having it fit is enough to say that the battery should work with your computer

Yeah, it SHOULD, but that is the key thing there...

Unfortunately, it is very easy to purchase (and why not?) labeling material, and print up "official" Dell part numbers- and make new labels and sell old gear or bad gear on ebay. For those of us used to being in a country like the USA, it can be a bit unfathomable or impossible to completely comprehend how bogus gear can continually get on the market. Simply put, over here, in Eastern Europe, I can even get a completely FAKE dell laptop- top to bottom. They make up everything and print their own labels. How do I know? I've been where they do it.

So even that XPS you just got, or the Sager, could be completely fake, top to bottom. And the last person who got screwed that way, sold it for parts and now you got a part from it- and the cells inside it are as old as heck- and ceased being effective 5 years ago.

So that's scenario 1.

The more normal one is simply you got a battery that is DOA because it sat on a shelf too long or was overheated in a truck or discharged for too long, etc., etc.

Unfortunately for those of us who buy off ebay, this is the risk we take.

When it comes to parts though, realize that the world is a VERY big place, and elite items like laptops draw crazy schemes for people to get rich in 3rd world countries- like driving 3000 miles in an old truck to steal some and make some prototypes using old failed gear then flying them into somewhere like NewJersey to sell on ebay. Sounds crazy? Try living in a city made of cinderblocks and open sewage for 30 years and then see hollywood for the first time.

anyway.
Carefull on Ebay with used or "official DELL" parts- sometimes you can score, but sometimes even the sellers don't know they got fake stuff from china somewhere or some 3rd world country. It is a lot more prevalent than it would seem to us when we think about it. Having been to those places, I'd say, almost never buy perfectly new items that are official, and at big discounts, off ebay.
Rather get it local at a store you can go in an talk to a manager if there's a problem.

for those of us who, like MrEvil and I and the original poster, choose to get used gear- the risk is what it is. It's best to learn how to repack your own (no it's not a smoke) and simply buy 9-12 cells and crack the puppy open and then epoxy it back when you're done. You'll not only learn HOW to do it on the first time (and laugh at how easy it was) but you'll be able to continue to do it in the future, for half the cost of buying a new battery, AND you might even discover how to do something fun in the process!

PEace!

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