Comments on: Improving the CradlePoint PHS300’s battery life http://www.howardchui.com/2008/03/30/how-to-improve-the-cradlepoint-phs300s-battery-life/ HowardChui.com - Your mobile phone community and resource Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:45:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: John Hasson » Finally.. a “hack” Better then the iphone 3G http://www.howardchui.com/2008/03/30/how-to-improve-the-cradlepoint-phs300s-battery-life/#comment-13367 John Hasson » Finally.. a “hack” Better then the iphone 3G Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:46:50 +0000 http://www.howardchui.com/2008/03/30/how-to-improve-the-cradlepoint-phs300s-battery-life/#comment-13367 [...] yet… off to do some research…)  Turns out the router lasts about 2 hours but there are tricks (not very sophisticated) to extend it.  The iPod Touch’s wifi usage battery life is only 3 hours anyways.  So… [...] [...] yet… off to do some research…)  Turns out the router lasts about 2 hours but there are tricks (not very sophisticated) to extend it.  The iPod Touch’s wifi usage battery life is only 3 hours anyways.  So… [...]

]]> By: Maj http://www.howardchui.com/2008/03/30/how-to-improve-the-cradlepoint-phs300s-battery-life/#comment-13256 Maj Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:22:54 +0000 http://www.howardchui.com/2008/03/30/how-to-improve-the-cradlepoint-phs300s-battery-life/#comment-13256 You could have done it a lot easier than that. The PHS300 uses Kyocera TXBAT10073 batteries which you can get for about $5 apiece on eBay. I bought five spare batteries and charged them all in the router. You could have done it a lot easier than that.

The PHS300 uses Kyocera TXBAT10073 batteries which you can get for about $5 apiece on eBay.

I bought five spare batteries and charged them all in the router.

]]> By: Derek http://www.howardchui.com/2008/03/30/how-to-improve-the-cradlepoint-phs300s-battery-life/#comment-12086 Derek Tue, 10 Jun 2008 05:02:02 +0000 http://www.howardchui.com/2008/03/30/how-to-improve-the-cradlepoint-phs300s-battery-life/#comment-12086 When you say connect the red wire to the red wire to the AC chord do you mean just get the two red wires to end up as one wire going to the connector? When you say connect the red wire to the red wire to the AC chord do you mean just get the two red wires to end up as one wire going to the connector?

]]> By: AC Adapter Guy http://www.howardchui.com/2008/03/30/how-to-improve-the-cradlepoint-phs300s-battery-life/#comment-11353 AC Adapter Guy Mon, 26 May 2008 19:53:34 +0000 http://www.howardchui.com/2008/03/30/how-to-improve-the-cradlepoint-phs300s-battery-life/#comment-11353 That is an interesting project. Maha had a charging pack similiar to that a few years ago, but a little pricier than what you did.. I would not try to rig my own charger if I were you. You would need to regulate the current delivered pretty carefully or you could end up blowing up another battery. Speaking of which, I was surprised that it blew. NiMH hardly ever blow, Li Ion sure but not <a href="http://sterlingtek.com/ul20mahaaba.html" title="NiMH batteries" rel="nofollow"> , (yep my family and I sell them). Anyway congratulations on building the pack and please be carefull, you might want to throw some Shottky diodes in there to prevent another incident..... That is an interesting project. Maha had a charging pack similiar to that a few years ago, but a little pricier than what you did.. I would not try to rig my own charger if I were you. You would need to regulate the current delivered pretty carefully or you could end up blowing up another battery. Speaking of which, I was surprised that it blew. NiMH hardly ever blow, Li Ion sure but not , (yep my family and I sell them). Anyway congratulations on building the pack and please be carefull, you might want to throw some Shottky diodes in there to prevent another incident…..

]]> By: GameKyuubi http://www.howardchui.com/2008/03/30/how-to-improve-the-cradlepoint-phs300s-battery-life/#comment-9902 GameKyuubi Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:47:41 +0000 http://www.howardchui.com/2008/03/30/how-to-improve-the-cradlepoint-phs300s-battery-life/#comment-9902 What you'd have to do for that is: 1) Instead of connecting the batteries to the 5v charger jack, connect them to the terminals used to draw power from the battery. In PARALLEL, NOT SERIES. You can actually connect as many 5v modules as you want this way. It will increase the mAh, not the voltage, so it is safe. Just make sure you put them in the right way I guess lol. 2) Uhh. I guess there isn't a number 2. I explained just about all of it in number 1. Oh well. What you’d have to do for that is:

1) Instead of connecting the batteries to the 5v charger jack, connect them to the terminals used to draw power from the battery. In PARALLEL, NOT SERIES. You can actually connect as many 5v modules as you want this way. It will increase the mAh, not the voltage, so it is safe. Just make sure you put them in the right way I guess lol.

2) Uhh. I guess there isn’t a number 2. I explained just about all of it in number 1. Oh well.

]]> By: John http://www.howardchui.com/2008/03/30/how-to-improve-the-cradlepoint-phs300s-battery-life/#comment-9831 John Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:00:09 +0000 http://www.howardchui.com/2008/03/30/how-to-improve-the-cradlepoint-phs300s-battery-life/#comment-9831 I wonder what you'd have to do to make it such that you could recharge them in the holders, so you could treat it like one sealed power unit (that way you don't accidentally put batteries in backward when you've just recharged a batch :-} ) ... and I wonder how to interface with a USB cable too (for charging, or for regular power; I have my phone and PDA both set up to charge from USB adapters on my home and work computers, on a wall outlet in my bedroom, and on a car->USB adapter in my car). I wonder what you’d have to do to make it such that you could recharge them in the holders, so you could treat it like one sealed power unit (that way you don’t accidentally put batteries in backward when you’ve just recharged a batch :-} ) … and I wonder how to interface with a USB cable too (for charging, or for regular power; I have my phone and PDA both set up to charge from USB adapters on my home and work computers, on a wall outlet in my bedroom, and on a car->USB adapter in my car).

]]> By: HowardChui.com: Batteries included » Why I’m stupider than you http://www.howardchui.com/2008/03/30/how-to-improve-the-cradlepoint-phs300s-battery-life/#comment-9791 HowardChui.com: Batteries included » Why I’m stupider than you Tue, 01 Apr 2008 06:25:49 +0000 http://www.howardchui.com/2008/03/30/how-to-improve-the-cradlepoint-phs300s-battery-life/#comment-9791 [...] all set to go out when my wife noticed a funny smell. It turns out I put one of the batteries in my homemade PHS300 battery holder backwards. My batteries exploded, my man purse has a nice hole in it and now I’m looking for [...] [...] all set to go out when my wife noticed a funny smell. It turns out I put one of the batteries in my homemade PHS300 battery holder backwards. My batteries exploded, my man purse has a nice hole in it and now I’m looking for [...]

]]> By: TelecomZombie http://www.howardchui.com/2008/03/30/how-to-improve-the-cradlepoint-phs300s-battery-life/#comment-9770 TelecomZombie Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:25:39 +0000 http://www.howardchui.com/2008/03/30/how-to-improve-the-cradlepoint-phs300s-battery-life/#comment-9770 Nice! Hope no Frogs were injured during the soldering of the connections. :D Nice! Hope no Frogs were injured during the soldering of the connections. :D

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