I about choked on my breakfast when I read this and saw how many have sold… I sincerely hope he wanted to move this inventory because almost 3x the amount of packs have sold in the last 12 hours from what he sold in the previous 4 days of the sale.
In retrospect I probably should have e-mailed the vendor before posting…
Why would you ever wanna do that? The vendor might try to take advantage of us BLF'ers if he knew beforehand. He would not have had the sale if he didn't want to move the product!
with shipping it only comes to $22 and it would also BALANCE the batteries. Would this not be better for building a 16x18650 battery pack? Can that PCM with equilibrium even handle 16x18650 wired to it?
I was a small business owner too. Sometimes you put things on sale at a loss to get people in the store where they will also buy regularly priced merchandise… But this is more brick and mortar store mentality.
I don’t think he would taken advantage of anyone. He has a lot of ASUS stuff and more than likely just needed to move this inventory. I’m just empathizing for when he runs out of shipping supplies this morning!
hmmm… I wonder if he have enough in his stock to cover all the orders? he might be away for a day not realizing how much was sold during the past few hours J)
I even had to buy a few of these for myself! These are a great buy to give to friends and family with lights. I bought some Acer packs a while back with these in them and the cells are an excellent value.
The first step is to drink a beer and make sure all minors are out of earshot. This was one of the more frustrating packs I have operated on.
My toolset was pliers, tin snips, pocket knife, and a lot of patience. You can probably get by with just pliers and a screwdriver. This the easiest entry point on this one was the connector base, cracked it with the pliers and went from there. Some of it peeled off like an orange, some was snipped off using the tin snips between the 2 rows of cells. It just takes persistence an attitude that saving money by doing this is actually fun!
Be very careful not to short anything. As soon as I can I snip the wires off the PCB so I don’t accidentally make any short circuits. Also with pliers there is a tendency to lever them against a battery while peeling off the casing and solder tabs. Try not to do this because you can tear the shrink wrapped lining.
Seriously though, leave the beer for afterwards. I’ve bloodied my hands many times in the excitement of pulling laptop cells. Be careful and be safe & you’ll be happy you picked these up. BTW, there are lots of thread on BLF on how to do this, check their good advice!