Acer Aspire One with MAPLIN External Laptop Battery

The standard Aspire One with 8GB SSD only has a 3 Cell battery. This lasts me about 2.5 hours which is fine, but there will be situations when I want more. Acer are releasing a 6 Cell battery later in the year, but I dont know how much that will be, so I have bought an External Laptop Battery from Maplins to keep me going even longer.

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[hewad1923]

I have a sony laptop and its charger output is 19.5V at 4.7A but the question is that am i able to use one of these external charger for my laptop or not. thankx

[securityactive]

I should certainly think so.

This isnt exclusive to the Aspire One, it works with many laptops.

[securityactive]

Both 19V.

I wouldnt use something that wasnt right for the job.

[securityactive]

I dont understand what you mean about spoiling anything, the unit is meant to power a laptop and does so fine, been using it for ages now.

The LEDs did come on after pressing the button to show how much power was left, and the video stopped as nothing else to see.

[snigel4321]

so where can one find this battery to buy ?

[securityactive]

Maplins Electronic in the UK.

I think they have replaced it with a newer model now, so just need to look in store.

[Blueberguard]

haha, super glue the battery to the back of the laptop >:) lol just kidding, it prob wouldnt work anyway.

[slideroadster]

haha so much for portability

[Lokivoid]

@hewad1923

look at your power brick, read the wattage rating. Want a battery that can discharge at that rate that matchs the machines max consumption. So by your statement of 19.5V at 4700mA (4.7A) would be 19.5 x 4.7 = 91 watts. So you would want a battery that would have a higher discharge rate than 91 watts. Now if only attand to only charge off the battery, than the discharge rate and mAh rating should be equal or greater than laptops the charge rate and mAh rating

[djfrogfm]

would this work with my Acer Aspire One 751h? on the laptop it says 19V, 1.58A and on the charger it says the same.

Is this Maplin in the UK and could you give a link to the product?

Thanks and sorry for all the questions :)

[sirmasterpimp]

Pretty cool, I agree the acer aspire one has pretty poor battery life for a netbook (I have the 120gb win xp version). I usually get about an hour to just under two hours out of my 3 cell battery. I looked, but I don't think the maplin battery is available in the U.S. I guess a comparable model would be a tekkeon external battery. Another option would be to buy the 6 cell battery like you mentioned, but I want a external battery with multiple adapters to use with my many laptops.

[791]

does the battery get hot? or can you leave it in the laptop case? (i know the video is 6 months old)

[mattxiao]

Both 19V.

[mungkey]

Good one bro, thanks for sharing.

I just have a problem with my system, I have seen an external battery available near me but it says 19V at 4.7A (max)

should that destroy my acer aspire one if I use it?

Under the aspire one i see something written -- 19V, 1.58A

what is this about. what is the rating in your batteries?

[boriskadaner]

OK. A question.

What is the voltage the original DC. Is it the same?

Maybe for now it seems to be working fine but who knows maybe by using a different DC input, with higher voltage you just shorting the life of the battery or the charging circuitry.