I love that era of IBM laptop. I have a Pentium 150 IBM 380ED in absolutely perfect condition. It was setup as a backup in an office, put away in an IBM bag, and promptly forgot about for 20 years The IBM batteries still work too! But not more than an hour max. It's my windows 3.1 and dos laptop, although it's a bit too new for that... But I was happy to see IBM had win 3.1 drivers for video and sound so I decided that was it. That's a nice upgrade you got yourself.
It's surreal to imagine that computers in the 300 megahertz range was considered good back then when now we have processors that can literally handle 10x faster frequencies
Forgive me if you've already done this and I missed it. Swapping the hard drive for an SSD could be an worthwhile upgrade if you have the means. It'll further improve battery life along with read/write times. :)
i learned how batteries work refurbishing discarded single use vapes, then rebuilding laptop batteries and eventually dealing with the big stuff powerwall and ev battery packs. shame that the drm in modern laptop batteries keeps you from rebuilding them since alot of obsolete models it doesnt make sense to spend more than the machine is worth on a new old stock battery thats sitting for years, but rebuidling it safely can get few more years out of it.
you definitely want those paper spacers to avoid shorting out if the plastic is damaged also theres cheap battery spot welder kits that may be worth it if you do this a lot, more reliable safer than trying to solder to the cell
I've soldered about 2,000 cells so far in my life and haven't had an issue yet, meanwhile I have had issues with spot welders. I don't plan to do this for products to sell to I'll stick with soldering for the time being.
Hey Rin. I originally subbed for the battery tinkering videos. You are the only channel I have followed religiously despite moving from the original content I subbed for. I wish you very well in a your adventures,
Thank you. I hope that I can still try my new things and yet move back to my old stuff as well. Maybe finally make those giant bicycle contraptions I always wanted haha
Oh my gosh! I'm glad this video exists! Do you think 3000 MAH LG HG2 batteries would be good for my IBM R31 battery? It is a 6-Cell and I have a TON of these HG2s that are all still great from when I used to vape. Please let me know. Replacement batteries are too expensive and I wanna treat my Pentium III Thinkpad to new batteries. ❤️🐨❤️
I subscribed to ALL your channels as well and have set notis to on! I will gladly support you and your efforts on YT since YT really fell off. Much love and hugs a koala! ❤️🐨❤️
Can't watch the video. However I'd be curious to see you do the same with old cordless power tool batteries. I had that idea to replace Ni-MH cells. Sourcing the high amp Samsung cells you'd want though is pretty difficult. I had the idea to use old laptop battery cells but someone said I'd just be wasting my time since they won't put out the needed amperage for power tools. My thought was even if so, I'd still have a working battery.
Oh, that's not a problem at all. Each 18650 can easily give 2 amps, maybe 4 amps. I'd say make your battery bigger so it lasts longer anyway. Maybe 1AH for every amp you plan to pull. On my first ebike battery I was pulling like 7 amps per 18650 and they werent happy, but they worked for hundreds of miles.
When did you make the booklet, the tinkerers guide to the 18650? My memory is not good, but I know I have a digital copy of this and I feel fairly certain that I acquired it before I started watching your channel. If so, that's a pretty interesting piece of serendipity, if I did acquire it from somebody else, I'm just presuming it was not widely published?
Thais, (sic?) We have not met and I have not seen much of you on film to develop an impression, that we both appreciate Rinoa, which maybe is somethingof a link. I don't know you and I'm naturally wary, obviously it's unimportant what I think, but that comment at the end of the video, suggesting Rinoa do some spins in the woods to celebrate the ThinkPad, it's such a small thing, but I feel almost certain you are necessarily good people from this tiny observation. I have not met her yet, only online, yet I feel strangely protective, and her dedication instantly made me cynical. Obviously you don't care what one stranger thinks, but for some reason, that sole sentence put me completely at ease. I'm really glad that Rinoa has somebody near at hand who cares. You are clearly both rather special people, seems to be thin on the ground these days. Good looking out
That was a nice comment. I showed her that and she said it warmed her heart and that she's glad she could put your worries at ease. Its funny that you're her favorite commenter. We both talked about comments we found important a lot and you come up often. You clearly pay good attention to our videos and you don't come away seeing things that arent there. Thank you for being that type of viewer who really makes it me love posting.
You should try it with other operating systems on it...(Linux XFCE...android x86 etc) 😊 I imagine you could have your smartphone last a lot longer on a battery pack...🤔 You could install dosbox etc... What version on notepad++ are you running?
Linux is a bit bad on old systems, and why run dosbox when I can just run DOS? dont get stuck in a modern mindset. You gotta think in old computing ways
On my Thinkpad T60 the screen brightness option is in the BIOS. The default behaviour was to slightly dim the screen on battery power, but I disabled that. So now I have no brightness change when I unplug my laptop. On a side note, does anyone have any idea why old Ni-Cd (nickel cadmium) batteries tend to fail and leak out? I have recently read a battery maintenance manual regarding this chemistry, and according to NASA for long term storage it is best to completely drain them, then keep them shorted (!!!) and in a cool dry place (but above freezing point). So that would indicate over discharge should have no negative effect on these batteries. Yet most guys who are into retro computing and preservation always advise to remove any Ni-Cd batteries from old motherboards, as they tend to fail and destroy the board they sit on. I have an old NEC 386SX laptop from 1990, that has a soldered on Ni-Cd clock battery on the motherboard. It still works fine, but I am paranoid whether it's going to eventually leak out, and damage the machine. But I also like the fact that it can keep time and settings with it. Any advice? Also the original main battery pack for mentioned 386SX laptop is made from Ni-Cd cells as well, and that battery pack works too for about an hour. I just don't know if this chemistry is always bound to fail and leak, or it really depends on manufacturing quality, and some of these cells/battery packs will keep working for many more decades?
It seems to be the case that the nicad cells only leak after they fail electrically. That's really amazing that you have a pack still working. Honestly I'd say keep it as long as you can.
@@RinoaL Yeah I will probably just keep a close eye on those batteries, so even if they start to fail I should be able to catch them in time, before they cause any damage. I want to preserve this NEC laltop as close to original as possible. I bought it quite a few years ago as new old stock, the experience of unboxing a 30 year old machine was very special. There was no discolouration on it at all that we see on all these old computers. And I keep it in a dark place, so it still looks like new. It wasn't working though, it had a major capacitor problem, some of which were leaking badly. I had to replace all of them, and clean up the board. It was a HUGE undertaking, I spent weeks slowly sourcing all the different caps, then replacing all of them. But eventually I got it back to life. Even though I love my thinkpads, due to its uniqueness and time period it's from, this NEC is my most valued laptop. Also I am planning to buy an Imax B6 battery charger for my battery related projects. And according to some people quite often you can sort of rejuvenate old Ni-Cd packs by discharging, then charging them up, and repeating this a few times, while monitoring the capacity gains on each cycle. When I leave my pack charged, it discharges quite fast, which indicates that it has crystallization inside. If I will feel brave enough, I might even try the "zapping method" to dissolve some of those crystals. I just want to make sure whatever I do, I won't damage the machine. It's just too valuable for that, and I don't want to ruin a museum piece like that. Now that I am thinking, I might will get something cheaper from that era, and experiment and learn on that first.
Awesome work!! I guess that is why they call electronic repairs "Trouble" shooting... Have you ever thought about getting yourself some shrinkwrap to replace those PITA plastic housings? have done that many times in the past & it works awesome.. on another note.. I know you are experienced with battery cells..but not sure if you have heard.. Those cells have been causing a lot of fires across the country during charging lately.. NYC has had at least 4 a day again just FYI Keep up the great work!!
I must say I was laughing my ass off too when I saw Rinoa playing around with it on a plane. Good thing the security didn't have a closer look of that glued together battery pack lol. A few years ago here in the UK they freaked out because of my Atari Lynx, and they made me to take it out of my bag and switch it on for a second lol.
I like to watch your videos !Very experimental and full of curiosity and intelligent. You are a genius!
I love that era of IBM laptop.
I have a Pentium 150 IBM 380ED in absolutely perfect condition. It was setup as a backup in an office, put away in an IBM bag, and promptly forgot about for 20 years
The IBM batteries still work too! But not more than an hour max.
It's my windows 3.1 and dos laptop, although it's a bit too new for that... But I was happy to see IBM had win 3.1 drivers for video and sound so I decided that was it.
That's a nice upgrade you got yourself.
If i saw a laptop that thick on a plane in 2022 my first thought would be thats gotta be a bomb. 🤣🤣 keep up the videos
It's surreal to imagine that computers in the 300 megahertz range was considered good back then when now we have processors that can literally handle 10x faster frequencies
Cpus just four years later could handle 10x
Its also funny to me that 300mhz still seems kinda fast for windows 98
were at 4ghz and bosst clocking up to 5ghz. thats 12-15x faster bud
Forgive me if you've already done this and I missed it. Swapping the hard drive for an SSD could be an worthwhile upgrade if you have the means. It'll further improve battery life along with read/write times. :)
Ive been experimenting with that. I hope to make a video of the results sometime
damn, solid brick of a laptop
36:30 lol
43:39 I was thinking this thing is a temperature sensor
1:00:50 lol
1:09:00 mmm such good music
i learned how batteries work refurbishing discarded single use vapes, then rebuilding laptop batteries and eventually dealing with the big stuff powerwall and ev battery packs. shame that the drm in modern laptop batteries keeps you from rebuilding them since alot of obsolete models it doesnt make sense to spend more than the machine is worth on a new old stock battery thats sitting for years, but rebuidling it safely can get few more years out of it.
you definitely want those paper spacers to avoid shorting out if the plastic is damaged also theres cheap battery spot welder kits that may be worth it if you do this a lot, more reliable safer than trying to solder to the cell
I've soldered about 2,000 cells so far in my life and haven't had an issue yet, meanwhile I have had issues with spot welders. I don't plan to do this for products to sell to I'll stick with soldering for the time being.
Hey Rin. I originally subbed for the battery tinkering videos. You are the only channel I have followed religiously despite moving from the original content I subbed for. I wish you very well in a your adventures,
Thank you. I hope that I can still try my new things and yet move back to my old stuff as well. Maybe finally make those giant bicycle contraptions I always wanted haha
Great, another hour long video!!
Oh my gosh! I'm glad this video exists! Do you think 3000 MAH LG HG2 batteries would be good for my IBM R31 battery? It is a 6-Cell and I have a TON of these HG2s that are all still great from when I used to vape. Please let me know. Replacement batteries are too expensive and I wanna treat my Pentium III Thinkpad to new batteries. ❤️🐨❤️
I subscribed to ALL your channels as well and have set notis to on! I will gladly support you and your efforts on YT since YT really fell off. Much love and hugs a koala! ❤️🐨❤️
Can't watch the video. However I'd be curious to see you do the same with old cordless power tool batteries. I had that idea to replace Ni-MH cells. Sourcing the high amp Samsung cells you'd want though is pretty difficult. I had the idea to use old laptop battery cells but someone said I'd just be wasting my time since they won't put out the needed amperage for power tools. My thought was even if so, I'd still have a working battery.
Oh, that's not a problem at all. Each 18650 can easily give 2 amps, maybe 4 amps. I'd say make your battery bigger so it lasts longer anyway. Maybe 1AH for every amp you plan to pull. On my first ebike battery I was pulling like 7 amps per 18650 and they werent happy, but they worked for hundreds of miles.
amazing laptop, I like it. looks cool
When did you make the booklet, the tinkerers guide to the 18650? My memory is not good, but I know I have a digital copy of this and I feel fairly certain that I acquired it before I started watching your channel. If so, that's a pretty interesting piece of serendipity, if I did acquire it from somebody else, I'm just presuming it was not widely published?
I made it in 2017 or so if I recall. Although I was working on it earlier. It was featured in ArduinoVersusEvil's Zine and also shared a lot for free.
Nice guitar!
You don't need to haul a 10 mile extension cord with you everywhere
Thais, (sic?) We have not met and I have not seen much of you on film to develop an impression, that we both appreciate Rinoa, which maybe is somethingof a link. I don't know you and I'm naturally wary, obviously it's unimportant what I think, but that comment at the end of the video, suggesting Rinoa do some spins in the woods to celebrate the ThinkPad, it's such a small thing, but I feel almost certain you are necessarily good people from this tiny observation. I have not met her yet, only online, yet I feel strangely protective, and her dedication instantly made me cynical. Obviously you don't care what one stranger thinks, but for some reason, that sole sentence put me completely at ease. I'm really glad that Rinoa has somebody near at hand who cares. You are clearly both rather special people, seems to be thin on the ground these days. Good looking out
That was a nice comment. I showed her that and she said it warmed her heart and that she's glad she could put your worries at ease. Its funny that you're her favorite commenter. We both talked about comments we found important a lot and you come up often. You clearly pay good attention to our videos and you don't come away seeing things that arent there. Thank you for being that type of viewer who really makes it me love posting.
I have one laptop, that will run on its stock batteries, for like 20 minutes, and I don't have enough 18650's to replace bad cells, just yet.
thank you.
You should try it with other operating systems on it...(Linux XFCE...android x86 etc) 😊
I imagine you could have your smartphone last a lot longer on a battery pack...🤔
You could install dosbox etc...
What version on notepad++ are you running?
Linux is a bit bad on old systems, and why run dosbox when I can just run DOS? dont get stuck in a modern mindset. You gotta think in old computing ways
Woooooo look at them Dinosaurs.
On my Thinkpad T60 the screen brightness option is in the BIOS. The default behaviour was to slightly dim the screen on battery power, but I disabled that. So now I have no brightness change when I unplug my laptop.
On a side note, does anyone have any idea why old Ni-Cd (nickel cadmium) batteries tend to fail and leak out? I have recently read a battery maintenance manual regarding this chemistry, and according to NASA for long term storage it is best to completely drain them, then keep them shorted (!!!) and in a cool dry place (but above freezing point). So that would indicate over discharge should have no negative effect on these batteries. Yet most guys who are into retro computing and preservation always advise to remove any Ni-Cd batteries from old motherboards, as they tend to fail and destroy the board they sit on.
I have an old NEC 386SX laptop from 1990, that has a soldered on Ni-Cd clock battery on the motherboard. It still works fine, but I am paranoid whether it's going to eventually leak out, and damage the machine. But I also like the fact that it can keep time and settings with it. Any advice?
Also the original main battery pack for mentioned 386SX laptop is made from Ni-Cd cells as well, and that battery pack works too for about an hour. I just don't know if this chemistry is always bound to fail and leak, or it really depends on manufacturing quality, and some of these cells/battery packs will keep working for many more decades?
It seems to be the case that the nicad cells only leak after they fail electrically. That's really amazing that you have a pack still working. Honestly I'd say keep it as long as you can.
@@RinoaL Yeah I will probably just keep a close eye on those batteries, so even if they start to fail I should be able to catch them in time, before they cause any damage. I want to preserve this NEC laltop as close to original as possible.
I bought it quite a few years ago as new old stock, the experience of unboxing a 30 year old machine was very special. There was no discolouration on it at all that we see on all these old computers. And I keep it in a dark place, so it still looks like new. It wasn't working though, it had a major capacitor problem, some of which were leaking badly. I had to replace all of them, and clean up the board. It was a HUGE undertaking, I spent weeks slowly sourcing all the different caps, then replacing all of them. But eventually I got it back to life. Even though I love my thinkpads, due to its uniqueness and time period it's from, this NEC is my most valued laptop.
Also I am planning to buy an Imax B6 battery charger for my battery related projects. And according to some people quite often you can sort of rejuvenate old Ni-Cd packs by discharging, then charging them up, and repeating this a few times, while monitoring the capacity gains on each cycle.
When I leave my pack charged, it discharges quite fast, which indicates that it has crystallization inside. If I will feel brave enough, I might even try the "zapping method" to dissolve some of those crystals.
I just want to make sure whatever I do, I won't damage the machine. It's just too valuable for that, and I don't want to ruin a museum piece like that. Now that I am thinking, I might will get something cheaper from that era, and experiment and learn on that first.
Awesome work!! I guess that is why they call electronic repairs "Trouble" shooting... Have you ever thought about getting yourself some shrinkwrap to replace those PITA plastic housings? have done that many times in the past & it works awesome.. on another note.. I know you are experienced with battery cells..but not sure if you have heard.. Those cells have been causing a lot of fires across the country during charging lately.. NYC has had at least 4 a day again just FYI Keep up the great work!!
Not heard of any recent news but they have caused fires for decades
@@RinoaL yeah... NYC has atleast 4 major calls a day from them..
Thats far fewer than number of car fires Im sure
nice
I wish i still had my dell inspiron 1501
I would store this computer outside in a fireproof container lol
Oh god. It went on a airplane.
hahahahaha yup
I must say I was laughing my ass off too when I saw Rinoa playing around with it on a plane. Good thing the security didn't have a closer look of that glued together battery pack lol. A few years ago here in the UK they freaked out because of my Atari Lynx, and they made me to take it out of my bag and switch it on for a second lol.
Put Linux on it.
It's a gas hog that's what we called cars that suck gas.
red is sanyo, blue is samsung, and purple tends to be lg witch is top teir
i find sanyos also hit and miss, prob the worst of the name brans
Actually Red is made by a lot of manufacturers I find.
First
forgive me, I'm swooning here a little 🫠 y'all are so cute