NG Sinyocells Li-ion Laptop Battery

5 Comments

1. OSS architect says:

   November 21, 2009 at 3:54 am

   Appears to be well made, but failed within a few charge cycles. No longer accepts any charge.
   Rating: 1 / 5
2. Shaun J. Lindow says:

   November 21, 2009 at 4:14 am

   I’ve been using this battery with my Acer Aspire One for about two weeks and love it. Make sure you condition the battery a few times, though!! I’ve heard that if you don’t it won’t work right.
   
   Conditioning consists of:
   
   Burning down any charge it comes with.
   
   Charging to full.
   
   Burning down all the way.
   
   Charging to full again.
   
   And then you’re done!
   
   Overall it works great. It protrudes out a bit, but since the laptop is so small anyway, it doesn’t keep me from fitting it in my girlfriend’s purse.
   Rating: 5 / 5
3. J. Grimm says:

   November 21, 2009 at 5:07 am

   Received battery with an 80% charge. Let charge for 24 hours and remained at 80%. Let discharge to 70% and would still not charge. Did not fit as well as standard battery in width and small gaps. Returned and bought a different battery. Bottom is pretty round and doesn’t obstruct very much nor lift to an extreme angle. If it would have charged it wouldn’t be bad so 2 stars… maybe you will be luckier.
   Rating: 2 / 5
4. rwizard says:

   November 21, 2009 at 8:04 am

   Fresh out of the box I throw this gem on the back of my laptop and plug in the charger. Once it is fully charged I set out to run it all the way down just to cycle it a couple times. That’s when I discovered the truth. This isn’t a huge ugly laptop battery sticking off the back of my Acer like a bad imitation of a laptop stand. It is a tiny, slim, and svelte zero point module. So here I am, six weeks later, laptop on battery, screen on, no sleep mode, no power offs, and the battery still shows 99%. It will never run down. I tried plugging a hair drier into the usb port, but the battery just won’t run down. In fact, the laptop now refuses to turn off, sleep, hibernate, or even reboot. It just keeps going, and issuing pop-up windows warning me about incoming wormholes.

   (okay – I made all of that up, but it is a large ugly battery that works very well and lasts a really, really, really long time. One star deducted for the ugly part, and because I rarely give five for anything.)
   Rating: 4 / 5
5. Booker T Washington says:

   November 21, 2009 at 11:01 am

   The battery arrived in a little box. Inside was foam and the battery in a plastic bag. Nothing else other than the Amazon.com packing slip. I put it in my computer, and it showed an 80% charge and a time remaining of 7+ hours. Sweet. I fully charged the battery. It was showing different times remaining in Windows but no big deal. I fully discharged the battery, then charged it again. This time, I turned on the computer at 05:55 and left it on while I went to work. The wireless was on but it went into hibernation. When I got home, I checked the remaining time and it was over 9 hours. I used it for the rest of the day, and left it on when I went to bed. The next morning, I plugged it in to recharge. When I came home after working 8 hours, the computer showed that the battery was fully charged. I turned the computer on, and Windows showed only 33% remaining on the battery, with the battery icon corresponding to the remaining power. I plugged it back in to charge again. Once again, the computer showed that the battery was fully charged but when I turned the computer on, still at 33%. I tried 3 more times with the same results. Battery is on it’s way back to Amazon.com. I liked this battery so much initially that I had already ordered another one since I have two netbooks. I have received the second battery and will let you know how it goes.
   Rating: 2 / 5