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    Primary battery for NC8430 - $86

    Discussion in 'HP' started by djspl, Oct 24, 2006.

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    djspl Notebook Geek

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    www.dsmiller.com

    The battey comes in a Hi-Capacity box (part #B-5842), has official looking HP labels on it. Windows Power Management says it's a "HP Primary manufactured 8/29/2006". After boot up and sitting idle for 3 minutes I'm getting 4 hours of run time with my NHC tweaked settings on lowest LCD brightness.

    edit: the website says 4400mAH, but the box label and the battery say 4700mAH.

    I also ordered an extra AC power adapter, which wasn't the right part (wrong connector, made by HI CAPACITY, part # AC-C14). I contacted them this morning and the RMA process is already underway. I sent them the HP part#s off of my original adapter and they said they don't have the correct adapter, but they will be looking into getting it.

    Overall, a thumbs up for the store (shipped promptly, great communication, great price) and the battery (recently manufactured, offical HP, better runtime out of box than battery that comes with the notebook).
     
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    after a discharge - recharge the run time is now 3:20, a little calibration is all it needed. Recharge took a little less than 2 hours.
     
    djspl, Oct 25, 2006
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