Third party battery recommendation

Hi all,
I am thinking about buying a new battery for my 15" Powerbook (FW 800). Anyone have recommendations for a good third party battery? I've found numerous references to the NuPower battery (though, does it matter that it's 11.1 V instead of 10.8 V?):
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Newer%20Technology/BAP15AL4800/
I've also found this battery from needbattery.com which has the highest amp hours I've seen (5.85), though since some manufacturers report Watt-hours instead it's hard to compare :
http://tinyurl.com/etwr2
There is also this interesting (and perhaps more environmentally friendly?) option of refilling the battery):
http://tinyurl.com/gny4s
Any thoughts/recommendations? I'm clearly not so saavy on the battery issue. Thanks for any advice.
Powerbook 15 Mac OS X (10.4.5) 1.25 GHz, 768 MB RAM

How many time have you run battery reset? Mine took 4 times before the recall test tool showed I qualify.
You need to install Power manager.
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-62928.html
Once installed preform a reset
Lenovo Power Manager > Advanced > Battery Tab > Battery Maintenance > Preform Reset
I had to preform 4 resets before the battery biagnostic tool saw the bad battery and I was able to get a recall replacement. The reset build a log of the battery problem and the diagnostic tool uses that log to decide if you get a replacement.

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Anyone try or recommend buying third party battery? I don't need it but its a option for the future.
Here is an example of a battery
http://cgi.ebay.ca/9-CELL-Battery-IBM-LENOVO-X200-X200s-X201-X201S-/200477548394?cmd=ViewItem&pt=Lap...
Sound too good to be true.

a lot of people on here will probably disagree with me but i buy everything on ebay. you just have to pick the right seller. the battery that you linked to. the seller only has 243 feedbacks. get your items from powersellers, the ones that have thousands of feedbacks and then go into the feedbacks and see what customers are saying about them. i like ebay because the descriptions are usually very well detailed. the descriptions on amazon are kinda sparce. i've bought items on amazon that were clearly used. but the description doesn't say new or used. so you have no recourse. I have a service company and i have 2-x32s, 3-x41s, 1-x30, and 1-x40 that were all bought on ebay. all the power adapters, wireless cards, batteries, ram chips, bluetooth chips, everything was bought on ebay and i haven't had any problems with anything. but, again, you have to do your homework. don't just buy the first one you see, research the seller and the product. i can buy 4 batteries on ebay for the price of one genuine. if i get 1 year out of it all four will still last longer than 1 genuine. and i've been getting 2 1/2 to 3 years use out of 1 battery. and i don't do anything to prolong the life of batteries, i just use them. ebay has come a long way from the old days, if a seller gets too many negative feedbacks, ebay will now yank their account. or take away their selling discounts. so sellers now have to watch their Ps and Qs. so it's a lot safer to buy something on ebay than it used to be.
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Third-party battery & charger?

Hi all,
Has any of you had any experience with 3rd party camera batteries & chargers? Would it cause any damange to the camera? Would it cause problems when doing repairs via BB or the manufacturer?
I'm considering this option because BB is making me extremely frustrated by making a simple battery replacement difficult & time-consuming (the whole story: CLICK HERE)
But I don't want BB or Panasonic to deny my right to repair the camera within the warranty due to using a third-party battery/charger.

To my knowledge, no manufacturer covers damage caused by using third party accessories under any circumstances (that would be silly).
In the US, the manufacturer cannot forbid you from using third party acessories and it cannot directly change your warranty status, and there are similar laws in most other countries; only if the third party accessory damages your camera.
For batteries and chargers, there is little downside, as even if the cells contained within are of a low quality, they would undervolt the camera, which it is designed to handle safely (although you wouldn't LIKE it, it won't damage your camera), not overvolt it, which would cause damage - and even overvoltage will only cause damage if it's significant. The camera has to be pretty tolerant of batteries acting up, because even the best Li-Ion frequently have trouble.
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I have a third party battery grip for my t2i. For some reason, I cannot adjust the aperture or f/stop when it is connected. I disconnect it and presto chango, the manual settings go like butter. How come?

The battery grip does two things:
1) It holds two batteries instead of just one. Doubling your battery capacity. The batter power is always available to the camera.
2) The battery grips also have a few extra controls so that you can hold the camera in a "vertical" orientation (aften referred to as "portrait" orientation) and you get an extra shutter button, main dial, etc. However, those controls will only work if the power switch on the battery grip is switched to the "on" positioon. The controls on your main camera body (not on the grip) should work regardless of whether the battery grip's power switch is on or not (assuming your main camera is switched on.)
Do you lose ability to control the aperture and shutter settings even when using the controls on the main camera when the grip is attached?
Is the switch on the grip in the "on" or "off" position when you have this problem, or does it matter?
Since this is a 3rd party grip, Canon wont be able to do much to support you (other than to suggest you buy the Canon brand grip, which they do support).
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Can i do a battery swap on a third party battery for macbooks

I have a customer computer that has a third party battery. since he is paying for the battery can i swap it at the bar or does he have to buy one from shelf?

What are you talking about? Do your job yourself. If you don't know, ask your boss.

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Hello everyone,
After my original battery started to behave as it had come the highest time to replace it ("service battery", sudden shutdowns), I did it and another issue has popped up immediately.
I bought a third party battery in service point and after installing it and plugging the charger I noticed the green light indicator was still on. At the same time the battery display on the menu bar has been showing the battery is not charging (occasionally it turns into "charging" but then comes back to "not charging") although it actually does but very slowly. I tried to calibrate the battery but when the computer was about to go to sleep it just shut down suddenly when reached 1%. However I let it stay unplugged for the 5 hours, hoping it might helped eventually but when I plugged the charger the condition remained unchanged. Beside that the battery holds power properly.
Of course I tried resetting SMC but it didn't change anything either.
Does anyone have any idea what's the cause may be? I'd be bery grateful for any hint.
Thanks in advance
Pawel
PS: sorry for any syntax/grammar mistakes..

Yeah, this is exactly what I was (and stil am) going to do tomorrow but wanted to do some research earlier anyway.
I've just installed the old battery and the orange light appeared right away so I guess it's not the MagSafe issue. Besides, as You wrote, it would be extremely weird if it just stopped working at this moment.
While I was researching the internet I stumbled across some thread where someone wrote some logic boards may just not recognize the third-party batteries (cheap chinese one in this case). I suppose it may be the reason but it's only my guess.
Thanks for reply

Need Third Party software recommendation - duplicates management and remova

I have read several dozen discussions addressing duplicate file/song removal from itunes, and many recommend third party software. While there is a 'show exact duplicates' command in itunes at Shift:File->Show exact duplicates, in my case all it did was show all of my songs, 8,440 instead of the actual 4,220 that are in my library. I'm not sure of the purpose of this command, perhaps it works for someone but not me.
Absent the ability to add a user defined column in itunes that would have the capability to perform an Excel-like function to number each row, allowing the sorting of odd/even numbers or some such scheme, I guess users with thousands of songs who have fallen into the duplication trap are required to purchase third party software to correct this, or just go ahead an begin whatever medical procedures purport the relief of carpal tunnel syndrome.
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Would that I be so lucky! I reinstalled my Vista OS and was adding back all of the programs and data, so all of the music had the same 'date added'. However, I have just this moment solved my own problem. Here is what worked for me:
1. I downloaded freeware from the website LCIBrosSolutions.com which does indeed identify duplicates in the iTunes file and will erase them.
2. However, now you are stuck with broken links (i.e. "!" songs) in your iTunes, and need to eliminate them. What I did was go into the View choices, and picked something that I would never use. In my case, I picked "Episode Number" and added it as a column. Then, I went to "select all" and highlighted all 8000+ song names. Right clicking gave me "Get Info" after the warning, and then I went to the video tab and entered the number 4. I un-highlighted, sorted on the Episode Number Column, and since the song names with no real content would not accept the number 4, they were at the bottom, and were all duplicates. I deleted them.
The way to verify that you do indeed have broken links is to sort by song name, and see that every other one does have an ! by it.

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What Products are you using? What are the Pro/Cons of the products you are using? What do you recommend?
We are looking at SolarWinds, Shavlik, Lumension... Thoughts?

You could have a look at SCUP, but that still requires a lot of manual work for everything except Adobe products. Third party products will definitely make your life a bit easier. Another product for your list should be Secunia.
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Third-party battery problem?

I recently bought a new battery, non-Apple, for my 12" aluminum PowerBook G4.
After 2 months it doesn't seem to want to charge higher than 9% of capacity.
The Profiler reads out the following:
Charge remaining 5391
Full charge capacity 65391 (?impossible)
Cycle count 23
Condition Good
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Voltage 12291

One of the failure modes for a battery is, besides not holding a good charge, that it can show whacky numbers in the battery statistics. Sounds like the battery is defective, return it to the vendor.
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Third party battery suddenly shuts down, works fine in another macbook as does another battery in mine, is it compatability issues?

I recently purchased a chinese battery off Ebay, it immediatley started the notebook up, but once i opened a video stream or it need more juice, the screen and system just shut off, instantly! Tried a friends battery in my notebook and all fine, then put suspect battery in his notebook and that worked fine, so why wont it work with my notebook? I can just about manage to surf the web on it, but if a lot of flash starts, out it goes? Fan operating at normal too. The macbook is a ealry 2008 model. Any ideas?

Check http://www.macsales.com/ for more reliable batteries being sold if you can't afford Apple's own.
The batteries must have the same milliamp hour or higher than the original specs call for, in addition to fitting properly in the said slot.
A few older MacBooks had batteries that due to an industry wide sabotage had batteries that expanded. This caused damage to the battery bay. Apple for awhile had a repair/exchange program to fix this issue. Check with your local authorized service center if they still have the parts necessary for that repair.

Third Party Battery possible for ipod mini???

I have had several battery problems with my ipod mini!! I bought 2 of it and lost 90% of the battery duration capacity within the first three weeks.
Apple service is not really willing to help and I do not have the time to write and discuss long with some s.... people.
I want to replace the low quality battery by myself by a better one.
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Hello,
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After one week, the first adapter failed miserably. Of a sudden, my MAC started acting sporadically as though there was some sort of a short or something. After a bit longer, my MAC's screen turned black (the power was still on and the adapter plugged into my MAC) and it died! I was afraid that there was a sudden zap of electricity from the "brick" of the power adapter. However, I unplugged the adapter from my MAC, leaving the adapter plugged into the wall. I then tried to get my MAC to work again and, fortunately, after shutting it down by just turning it off by pressing the power button. I then plugged in my old original Apple power adapter and then turned my MAC on again. After a while, the plugged-in "brick" of the power adapter that you sold to me was "cold." It had died! I actually bought 2 of these in the hope that, should one die over time, then I would have another at the ready when the need arose. Well, after the scare that I had with the first one, I was extremely reluctant to use the second one for fear that, maybe, the second one may do the same and actually cause damage to my machine. I just plugged in and kept on using the old one. Today, I got an original Apple 85 Watt power adapter that is now connected to my MacBook Pro. Well, since this "event," I have been having trouble with my built-in FireWire interface as it just fails to recognize my external drives extremely erractically for no reason at all. I have changed the cables numerous times and even cut down the number of FireWire drives down from 6 to only one! However, the problem still persists at the same frequency (about once every 15 minutes after getting the drive recognized again). Now, I cannot reliably back up my data from 2 750G drives to a 1T drive as needed. My iTunes library is more than 200G and needs to be on an external drive and I cannot listen to music without the danger of losing my iTunes directory as well as a numeric level of my DRM rights. This was NOT a problem BEFORE the "brick" suddenly malfunctioned or went "bad" on my MAC. I followed the instructions to the letter about how to use the power adapter included in the box. I also bought this MAC last May.
What can you do for me to "make things right"? I am sure that my MAC requires service as well as repair. However, should Apple deem that it was due to "other than Apple's fault," it could cost almost as much as a new MAC as this "shock" to my MAC may have caused the necessity to replace my current motherboard (over $1600!).
I am, to say the least, very unhappy and I would like to see a "resolution" to this problem that will return my MacBook Pro to its proper state and performance.
Thank you,
Anyse
Well, I am letting all of you know that this "replacement" is not worth it and I will definitely keep all of you posted as to how this turns out. At least you can learn from MY own experience, if not stupidity!
ANyse

Thanks for sharing. Do keep in mind the old adage, "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is..." Since Apple has not licensed the MagSafe design, there are no 'official' non-Apple power adapters, so you're either buying a knock-off or a reconditioned one (and with power systems, reconditioned is not a good idea).

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Take a look at "MyBattery" by Jeremy Kezer. It works in OS 8.6 so I suspect it will still work in 9.2.
His website is "http://kezer.net/".
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