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    custom portable external power with scib ?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by roberto.tomas, Dec 9, 2010.

  1. roberto.tomas

    roberto.tomas Notebook Consultant

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    I was looking at the new Samsung QX310 -- it already has respectable battery performance (65wh/kg - like 4+ hours battery life), but I'd still want more than that from an external source.

    The reality is, I'm going to be waiting for Sandy Bridge anyway, but .. people aren't going to go back to worse laptop batteries, it can only get better.

    So .. I found you can buy SCiB's from Toshiba, their energy density is the same (67wh/kg) and the ones they advertise they will start making next year are 4 times that .. in the range of high end car battery li-ion, instead of cheap laptop batteries.

    The SCiB comes with its own power management circuitry, so all one should need to do to use these directly as an external source is attach an AC converter and a wall plug for recharging. But I can't find technical documents for the batteries, and I don't really know how to make those connections.

    The idea of a 2kg external brick that gives you 20 hours of continuous use on a laptop is hard to resist, -- was wondering if anyone could help me flesh out how to make that a reality... it what are the connectors on the scib and where can I get some industrial AC converters and a wallplug for them?