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November 12th, 2008, 01:10 Posted By: Shrygue
Okay, so you may have heard stories like this before. That however won't stop me from telling mine though, so here goes...
After waiting about 8 days or so, my 3600mah battery I ordered from eBay came in. First thing I noticed, it felt light and somewhat flimsy than my official Sony 1800mah ones and upon registering that, I had a feeling that the they weren't going to last long in terms of runtime as expected from a high-capacity battery.
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After charging it up in my PSP which took about the usual 2 hours or so, I turned on the unit to test drive the battery. It drained out in about 3-4 hours on normal 222mHz clock speed and the lowest brightness setting where my official two year old 1800mah Sony battery went for over 6 or so. I was thinking, "That's definitely not right, the runtime on the 3600mah battery is shorter than my old Sony one."
Since the price was cheap at £4 with free shipping, I decided to crack it open and whoo, what have we here...?
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If you've ever opened an official Sony PSP battery, you'll have seen that the cell pack is bigger. On this particular one, it's smaller by about 40%, what a joke. The rest of the space is filled up with a metal weight that doesn't even make an impression when closed is anywhere equivalent to an official one as one can see below.
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The process of cracking open the battery was easier than I thought it would be for the case parts were just simply glued into place. Certainly not like the Sony ones where I think the pieces clip in and that one must do more work to open it.
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So in short, take care when buying any capacity PSP battery on eBay. Better yet, don't bother, no matter how cheap it and weather or not it has free shipping. That £5 or so can go to better things, like a couple of beers at the pub or other.
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