Curt Squires <CSQUIRES@vm1.spcs.umn.edu> (06/13/90)
I'm looking for a replacement battery for an AT&T model 4400 cordless phone. The battery is 3.6v 270 mA (3 cells arranged in pyramid fashion). I'd like to find a mfg&model number and/or a place I could order it by phone. (I haven't actually seen the phone, so I might not have all the details.) Thank you..
HAMER524@ruby.vcu.edu (Robert M. Hamer) (06/13/90)
On Tue, 12 Jun 90 18:31:40 CDT Curt Squires <CSQUIRES@vm1.spcs. umn.edu> writes: >I'm looking for a replacement battery for an AT&T model 4400 cordless >phone. The battery is 3.6v 270 mA (3 cells arranged in pyramid >fashion). I'd like to find a mfg&model number and/or a place I could >order it by phone. (I haven't actually seen the phone, so I might not >have all the details.) Thank you.. Having recently had a cordless phone die, and after asking the Digest what might be the problem, and after having decided that the NiCad Battery was the problem, I went looking for a replacement. It is a Panasonic cordless phone, and used a 3.6v 270 mA replacement. The original battery is flat, and consists of three cells, each about the size of a very thick quarter, shrink-wrapped together in a pyramid fashion. I called Panasonic, and they gave me the name of a local electronic shop that they said carried a replacement. I went to the shop, and they did not have a physically identically replacement, but they had a 3.6v 270 mA replacement that had three cylindrical barral-shaped cells, each about 1 inch long and maybe half an inch thick, shrink- wrapped together. They assured me it would fit in the phone even though it was not physically the same shape as the original. I bought it; cost about $12. It fits. And works. Yesterday, I happened to be in an AT&T store, and saw the identical battary pack for sale at $13. Its packaging claimed to work in all AT&T cordless phones.
johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine) (06/13/90)
AT&T sells a replacement battery that seems to fit all 4000 and 5000
series phones. I got one at my local AT&T phone store, and they are
also available at places like K Mart that carry AT&T phones.
Regards,
John Levine, johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us, {spdcc|ima|lotus}!esegue!johnlking@uunet.uu.net (Steven King) (06/15/90)
In article <8920@accuvax.nwu.edu> HAMER524@ruby.vcu.edu (Robert M. Hamer) writes: >Having recently had a cordless phone die, and after asking the Digest >what might be the problem, and after having decided that the NiCad >Battery was the problem, I went looking for a replacement. It is a >Panasonic cordless phone, and used a 3.6v 270 mA replacement. The >original battery is flat, and consists of three cells, each about the >size of a very thick quarter, shrink-wrapped together in a pyramid >fashion. I had a similar problem with my Uniden phone. The battery pack consisted of what sounds like the same pyramid configuration of cells. I couldn't find a replacement, but I *did* find a ni-cad battery at Radio Shack that I could modify. The Radio Shack battery was also three circular cells, but stacked rather than arranged adjacent to each other. I ended up cutting the sheath off the stack of cells and soldering jumpers across their contacts. Works great! Now my only problem is lots and lots of RF noise around my apartment, but that's another story... It strikes me that the Radio Shack battery cost considerably less than the $12 Robert Hamer reports, but I could be having a memory lapse. Steve King, Motorola Cellular (...uunet!motcid!king)