darkdestroyer

I was bored last night and decided to make my very own x50 series recharge station. I used a series of 4 AA NI-MH 2000Mah Digital batterys that i found at wal-mart. Stuck them together in a series using a old adaptor found in an old toy.
Stripped the ends of the wires and hooked them up to a male power plug found in an old LG cellphone charger cable. This way I can keep this thing in my bag or backpack and charge my X50 anytime i put it in there. Also note that the X50/X50v CAN BE USED while its charging and there is absolutly no flickering whatsoever. It is a fully functional extended battery pack for any device that uses this plug size and 5 volts of power.
I believe the PSP can also be charged using this, not 100% sure, i dont own a psp. But this is a great way to make your own homemade extended battery for pennies.

daddybfree

Thanks for sharing; reduce, reuse, recycle :approve:

darkdestroyer

I wonder if anyone else would want one of these. I can get the parts from yard sales and makign them doesn't take much time at all. Is anyone else interested? I may sell these to people who want them.

AgentO

Nice work. Props.

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lynx_deb

its output is 4.8v right?

darkdestroyer

Yep!

each battery is 1.2 V and 2000 Mah. But since its in a series, its just 2000 mah at 4.8v.

franktank232

Whats the run time? You can buy those 4AA series thingys @ radio shack i think.

darkdestroyer

I have yet to test it out. Ill be doing that later tonight, but so far i've fully charged my Axim from half battery and charged my 900mAh camera from zip battery and the series of AA are still going strong.

stevenator65

I love mods, great job darkdestroyer.

joedoe101

Would it work for x30s?

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mmbika

"I was bored last night and decided to make my very own x50 series recharge station. I used a series of 4 AA NI-MH 2000Mah Digital batterys that i found at wal-mart. Stuck them together in a series using a old adaptor found in an old toy.
Stripped the ends of the wires and hooked them up to a male power plug found in an old LG cellphone charger cable. This way I can keep this thing in my bag or backpack and charge my X50 anytime i put it in there. Also note that the X50/X50v CAN BE USED while its charging and there is absolutly no flickering whatsoever. It is a fully functional extended battery pack for any device that uses this plug size and 5 volts of power.
I believe the PSP can also be charged using this, not 100% sure, i dont own a psp. But this is a great way to make your own homemade extended battery for pennies"

I repeated the all - 100%. Now the ABMER charging Light in turned ON - but yet it does not charge in Setting > Power. Infact battery power reduced with time. And YES the AMBER Light stays ON (as if charging.

Anything wrong with my Axim X50V or soemthing else? Has anbody else sucess with this / other charging options tried at home EXCEPT DELL or other OFFICALLY sold power accessories for X50V? It doesn't charge even with 5V DC. I have tried and tested this. It charges only with Dell Cradle or Dell Power Plug in my case. I earlies had USB Sync-Charge cable which worked fine till A05 upgrade. Than it never charge although syncs correctly. What I wondered many a times is that if my USB Sync-Charged worked finr earlier why it stopped charging all of a sudden and forever? I inspected connetions and these are all OK. Is there a problem with charging circuit inside my X50v? Has anybody else has problems with USB-Sync-Charger like mine? I tries with USB port of a laptop (powered one) / another laptop / Mains-USB adapter etc and no sucess. No sucess with this 4A4 2100 mAH batteries in series.

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Snerkel

The answer is probably a slightly high resistance, probably between the charger (what ever that may be) and the ax.

Even a relatively low resistance of 0.4ohm can be enough to drop the voltage reaching the ax below the minimum charge voltage. Every connection needs to be clean and bright and need to make good electrical contact, over time this is less likely to happen as parts wear.

The NiMH battery pack will work (I built one about a week ago using a 4 cell battery holder from Maplin in UK), however this type charger will have problems if their is any contact or cable that is not absolutly perfect.

Charging the ax while off is more likely to succeed with this type of setup as the current draw will be less, this will reduce the effect of resistance, thus maintaining the correct charge voltage at the ax.

darkdestroyer

Like Snerkel said, if you turn the Axim off the axim will charge correctly. I find that if i enable the radios, processor on max, and brightness on max the ax wont charge very well when on. But if I play music and turn the screen off, everything works fine. I also upgraded my MI-MH batterys to the Energizer 2500Mah, talk about an extended battery :D

I dont know if it will work with x30's. It's just the standard jack that plugs into the x50's, i have no clue if its the same as the x30's power plug.

skpang

Anyone has idea how to convert Dell's 2200mAh extended battery to external battery. I kept my extended battery in the drawer for a while after I started using the magnum case, kind of a waste!

Accept my apology if this have been dicussed already!

darkdestroyer

If you had an extra cradle just break that up and use the pins