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post #21 of 65
7/1/04 at 12:30am
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im tempted to try

or we can wait till compal finds a more suitable one that is approved

7 hrs is definetly mobile time
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post #22 of 65
7/1/04 at 12:39am
good lord, that would be the greatest thing ever

a powerful laptop i can actually use ALL day on campus
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post #23 of 65
7/1/04 at 1:02am
Definetly keep us posted on the 4cell battery of doom
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post #24 of 65
7/1/04 at 2:01am
Once you start to use BT for your phone, PPC, and mouse you'll never want to go back. Get internal BT if at all possible.
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post #25 of 65
7/1/04 at 2:12am
thats some nice work rince... one thing puzzled me that the battery replaces the dvdcdrw drive... i dont know about that, i kinda use that a lot hehe...

its good to know u can have beacoup de la battery hehe
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post #26 of 65
7/1/04 at 2:35am
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Originally Posted by ewok
its good to know u can have beacoup de la battery hehe
oui... that's the reason i'm going with asus rather than mitac
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post #27 of 65
7/1/04 at 7:25am
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asus m6n dual battery works the same way. the optical battery goes in place of the cd/dvd drive to get it 8 hours. u cant have the 2nd battery in and the cd/dvd drive together at once, its either one or the other, just like the compal cl56

its not that big a deal if you use no-cd cracks for your games.

gamecopyworld.com has fixed exes for u to download free so u dont have to use ur cd/dvds for gaming...

however u are short if u want to put in ur dvds for viewing movies...
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post #28 of 65
7/1/04 at 8:21am
Great info rincewind!

I am particularly interested in upgrading this screen

Also would definately get the BT module if I knew where.
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post #29 of 65
7/1/04 at 8:22am
I just noticed this on the BT module site posted earlier:

Profile Support
General Access Profile
Serial Port Profile
Service Discovery Application Profile
File Transfer Profile
Dial-up Networking Profile
LAN Access Profile


Does this mean BT mice ala logitech are not supported?
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post #30 of 65
7/1/04 at 9:15pm
Guys I have some more info on the potential 4 cell battery but this 4 cell does not fit the optical bay. A friend of mine has an Acer TM290 series notebook that appears to be built on the CL 50/56 platform. The case looks exactly like my Hypersonic CX5. He gave me an extra battery to try in my laptop today and the battery is a BATCL50L4. Apparently this is a 4 cell battery made by Sony as well. You can see some reference on the Acer website in this PDF:
http://global.acer.com/support/regul...ertificate.pdf

The PDF states the following, Sony BATCL50L4, Li-ion type 14.8V 2150mAh. This sounds almost exactly like the battery rincewind has in the graphic on the first page of this thread. I am not sure but I do know this battery will fit in the battery slot but not in the optical bay without some major modifications!
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post #31 of 65
7/1/04 at 9:21pm
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that batt slot fits a 8 cell batt

shouldnt a 4 cell batt be smaller ? like in the optical drive?

can u take pics? what is the part number, does it match up to the 4 cell sony one?
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post #32 of 65
7/1/04 at 10:35pm
Ask and ye shall received!

the first picture below is of the Acer battery:


the second image is of the Hypersonic battery for comparison:


the third image is of the Acer battery:


the fourthimage is of the Hypersonic battery for comparison:


the fifth image is a side-by-side (Hypersonic on left/Acer on right):


The Hypersonic is a model BATCL50L and the Acer is a BATCL50L4
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post #33 of 65
7/1/04 at 10:38pm
Thread Starter 
i think that is the sony 8 cell

not the 4 cell

both of those fit into the normal batt slot
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post #34 of 65
7/1/04 at 10:43pm
I wonder if the Acer battery will work ok with the Hypersonic... the Acer has a 1.5A charging current versus the Hypersonic battery 3.0 charging current... the Acer is also a 2150 mAh versus the Hypersonic 4300 mAh... I would hate to screw up the computer by using a subpar battery... any electonic techies out there wish to comment on the charging differences or mAh differences?
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post #35 of 65
7/1/04 at 11:14pm
Well the mah difference wont mess up your notebook, all it will do is give it a shorter battery life... and the charging current I am not so sure of.
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post #36 of 65
7/1/04 at 11:23pm
I figured the big difference would be in the 1.5V versus 3.0V charging current.... I am not sure if our CL56 charger would potentially "fry" the battery..... I did notice the Sony battery on rincewinds chart is a 2150mAh... but I also notice it says "Disapproved" out to the right side of the chart... I wonder if this means don't use the Sony batteries in this notebook?
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post #37 of 65
7/1/04 at 11:35pm
hmm if you really need dell might have duel battery + cd drive... at least my model does i'm nto sure about the new ones but i can't see why they woulnd't

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Originally Posted by rincewind
asus m6n dual battery works the same way. the optical battery goes in place of the cd/dvd drive to get it 8 hours. u cant have the 2nd battery in and the cd/dvd drive together at once, its either one or the other, just like the compal cl56

its not that big a deal if you use no-cd cracks for your games.

gamecopyworld.com has fixed exes for u to download free so u dont have to use ur cd/dvds for gaming...

however u are short if u want to put in ur dvds for viewing movies...
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post #38 of 65
7/2/04 at 5:21am
BTW The Ace Travelmate 650 has the same BT module. (T60M665)

http://www.acersupport.com/library/tm650sg.pdf

Thus if you can find an Acer supplier they should carry it.

On a different note - does anyone know if the Clevo 15" screens would work in CL56?
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post #39 of 65
7/2/04 at 5:38am
damn rincewind this is sweet information you posted (the parts list):

Does this mean I can get replace any of the parts on that list you posted?

I want to replace the DVD/CDRW with a DVDRW, and maybe try source another LCD.

Do you have the original site you got this from?
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post #40 of 65
7/2/04 at 7:56am
Thread Starter 
its in a excel sheet from compals ftp

some1 posted the login/pass and ip and i logged in and downloaded everything that said cl56...
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