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Laptop Battery
      #381643 - Sun Jan 27 2008 08:07 AM

Hi,

I seem to have somehow fried the battery in my Vaio and need to buy a new one.
The battery is a VGP-BPS2C - 11.1V/5200mAh!
Whilst searching for a replacement i've come across...
11.1V/6600mAh & 11.1V/4800mAh.
What does the difference actually mean and would I be ok using either of them as long as the voltage is the same?

Advice appreciated, thanks Jo


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Re: Laptop Battery [Re: JoH]
      #381658 - Sun Jan 27 2008 10:27 AM

A mAh is a milliAmphour and is a measure of how many millamps your battery could produce in one hour. It means that if you joined the positive and negative terminals together the 6600 would produce 6600 milliamps in an hour then die. It follows that the higher the number, the longer the battery will last before it needs recharging. It also normally means that the battery will be more expensive.

I would be very careful about putting a more powerful battery into your laptop than the one the manufacturers provide. If this 6600 is cheaper than the 4800 I would be even more wary. Laptop batteries are expensive and buying cheap ones off eBay probably imported from China isn't necessarily a bargain. What do Sony want to charge you and how much cheaper is the 6600 you've found?

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