I never understood this fiddling about with batteries or any other gear. You buy an instrument that costs $$$ but want to run it on cheap batteries. There are people who use pingpong balls or christmas balls instead of spheres. Wtf
Buy the manufacturer ones. On the lsf forum there was a discussion on this and aven some bloke who wants to replace parts himself in his scanner. Idiots
https://laserscanningforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=15353&p=81091&hilit=batteries#p81091
Yes the newer South batteries are 3400mAh verse 2700mAh? for the old ones.
BTNF-L7408W from Surveying TDX via Aliexpress. We paid NZ$ 122.90 at the time.
We get same improvement is base and rover run times. We were quoted much higher price for batteries.
We do use a SLA for the old base. Most of our jobs are small G1-s base and rover run fine off the Li-Ion.
I took one apart and posted it here https://surveyorconnect.com/community/surveying-geomatics/re-celling-to-lipo/paged/2/#post-458666 About as simple a re-cell as you could want, just use very high quality small wire as there is no extra space. With little effort you will get better than stock
Just got a Trimble "camcorder" battery back from Dias & Dias (surveybattery.com). $57, including shipping, for repair/recell.?ÿ New battery from Trimble lists at $120.?ÿ It took less than 2 weeks for them to turn it around.?ÿ
I note that they return shipped it via Canada Post - Air on Nov 21. Which means it spent 10 days of that 2 weeks on board one of Canada's miraculous airmail planes - they sometimes stay airborne for weeks at a time.?ÿ?ÿ
I have flown out of Pearson Airport before. While the flight does not take that long, waiting at the terminal seems to.
