Battery options for 82143A printer

[Paul Berger (Canada)]

(02-08-2020 12:49 PM)Dave Britten Wrote:  I considered the possibility of using AAs, since NiMHs would easily give you as much capacity as the old sub-C NiCds. Flat-top AAs are readily available at Batteries Plus - I have a few for my 25, and my charger has enough of a "bump" at the positive end that it makes contact just fine. I've also got a few 4/5 A cells laying around that would likely work.

But I'd still have to build a holder of some sort, and I'm not much of a handicrafter. I'd probably have to jigsaw something ugly out of a block of wood and fine tune it with the drill and Dremel.

Yeah 4/5 AA would work the space inside a shell for one of the battery packs for your printer is about 85mm, a quick way might be to get 4 single AA holder trim one end on them and glue them into the battery shell to form a pair of end to end 2 cell holders. You can even use the original contact but would nedd to either glue or tape them in place. My pack with AAA cells uses four single cell AAA holders fitted into a shell.

If I was better with 3D print design I might take a shot at designing something, but I am really only starting out.

Paul.