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PSP 3xAAA Battery Mod
greg | February 3, 2007
This is pretty cool and totally MacGyver-like…
-Neubit-, over in the acidmods forum, has posted a tutorial illustrating the steps to replace your original PSP battery with 3 AAA
batteries –
The PSP battery was opened up and the original battery was taken out, two wires were soldered to the +/- points on the battery circuit board. No resistors were used. The 3 AAA batteries were fitted inside the battery case and connected to the previously soldered wires. Simple enough?
Very simple! I could actually see this mod serving a useful purpose when traveling and there is no time or wall outlet nearby to provide a sufficient charge — walk into any convenience store, pick up 3 AAA batteries, and place them in your newly modified battery casing. It’s a great alternative to those [expensive] longer-lasting battery replacements out there.
Click the source link to read the full tutorial.
- source: acidmods
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they look lke AA to me…but great mod!
It has AAA written right on there.
This seems like a rather useless mod to me.
serving a useful purpose when traveling and there is no time or wall outlet nearby to provide a sufficient charge — walk into any convenience store, pick up 3 AAA batteries,
so how is this useless?
How long does the battery version last compared to usuing the original battery?
depends on the battery you use though, but i get about 6~8 hours of Music play time!
oh ya..forgot to add…I use energizer 900mAh rechargeable batteries
isnt Duracell the best? lol i is bored yes very bored u lil fuck wits
cool idea but a waste of time what if ya mess it up? buy a spair psp battery then try? or just buy another battery and charge that? lol the thing is does doing this mod give u longer battery life?
well yea charge alot of chargable batterys and use them
This could be useful, for those long and boring journeys.
I saw something like this being sold at future shop sometime ago. Went there to buy a spare battery for the psp, seemed like a good idea, but it said that it gave like 3 hours more of battery life, but it didn’t list on what setting that 3 hour would be. It would probably be less than 2 hours when playing a game or something…
hehe i made my own mod once with help of a car charger and a 12 v battery i can just say that battery i have never in my life rechraged that 12v battery rofl still this is awsome cuz it dont take any extra place outside the psp ;)
Hooray! What I’ve always wanted - a GameGear…that doesn’t last as long.
Haha - nice mod though, just not convinced about the power consumption.
^Doody
Useless
yeahh..right..useless let me tel you faggot
you can actually rig up a system to plug AA batteries into the power outlet so it charges the psp batt…i’d rather use that than this…that way you arent messing too much with the internals and to take it off you simply unplug it from the power port
I saw an actual $10 replacement battery that took AA batteries from Best Buy I think.
No sense in modding this unless your battery completely fails.
-DarkPacMan77-
me too…i saw this already at best buy so you can just get one there if you wanted something like this.
haha this looks pretty fricken sweet - redneck, but sweet lol
I think that thingie they had the other day with the 20 hour battery was pretty cool and the price ain’t that bad either…….like $69 i think…..i’d love to have one of those…GREAT for travel….
If you could fit 3 2700Mah batteries in this, it would give you very long run time.
AAA batteries don’t go that high, AAs do. I have an Energizer Ni-MH in front of me and it says 900Mah.
Your wrong, do research before you make comments. Sony has their own rechargable battery line, the AAA batteries are infact, 2700mah.
car charger - $3
AAA batteries(3) - $5.69
Finding out that you just blew your money and could have used a car to charge your psp instead. - Priceless
For everything else theres an extra battery
Well i cant edit this, but i meant $13 not 3
You’d have to include the price of the car.
very clever…… tht’s very smart i might get an extra battery and do tht couse i can name SEVERAL times tht that would come in handy……!
Codyd536, exactly WHERE do you find a car charger for $3?
XD i meant 13 ill fix that
Make sure you be very careful when using Alkaline batteries.. If you forget and plug A/C power to the psp, it will try to charge the Alkalines.
Ejfoi, where everyone else finds em, EBAY ^_^
why just not get a car charger ….duh.
Use GPpowerbank batteries 1800mh
and you get more playtime then a nintendo ds
i have a little plug in thing for my psp and u put in it 4 AAA batteries and u get a half battery.
and u guys are saying that 3 batterys will!??
didnt people do this like 2 years ago when 1.5 or sumit had just been hacked, everyone was arguing about the power of diffrent batteries…
I really don’t see a point to this, yeah it’s quite cool and the guy must’ve took time to do this, but i once saw a 4900 mhz battery on ebay for £5 max. about $11
my mod is way cooler. my PSP runs off a potato ;-P
LMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i was scrolling and read that lmfao dude
this is just stupid, the psp battery is rechargeable, therefore no reason to do this mod whatsoever
1 person will try this and thats the person who made it. Buy a second battery ffs. Useless mod!!
u can buy those already made at bestbuy i bought one for $15 and it works great
everyone, what do you mean a patatoe?
the batteries are all fuckin crooked in there lol
you dumb-ass, most battery compartments will house batteries crooked anyways. after-all, one end is meerly on a spring.
use Ni-Mi bateries .. not alcaline..
sony official battery =
3.6 v at 1800 mAh (1.8 Ah)
PSP consumption = 5v at 1.2A
ok what this mean is the battery can provide 1.8 Ampere at 3.6V for 1 hour.
At the rated consumption, the battery will last 1.8/1.2 = 1.5 hour.
Now if you run 3 AA NIMH 2900 mAh battery,
you chain them (in series) and you get
1.5v x 3 = 4.5v at 2900 mAh x 3 = 8700 mAh (8.7 Ah)
now 8.7 / 1.5A = 5.8 hour
You tell me this is useless? guys… this last way longer than any battery sony can provide you, in fact 3 AA battery can equal 8.7 / 1.8 = 4.833
yes 3 AA battery can replace having almost 5 official battery.
Stop saying this is useless, it’s great, cause Sony Battery sucks, and there is reason why PSP was downclock, this is to reduce consumption cause well.. the battery blows.
again why this is not useless… notice what i wrote on the top (don’t believe me, take off your battery, read the battery and read what’s on the sticker inside the case where battery goes)
Sony is retarded or something, the psp needs 5volt and they provide you with a 3.6V battery
Now electrically that’s fine, just well… it’s underpowered. Battery will be drained at an increased rate, i can’t for the life of me figure out why they don’t provide the 5v battery…
Was that calculation on 3 AA’s or AAA’s?
Neat mod anyway, ingenuity is never useless cocksuckers. And tell me where a car charger will come in handy on a 12hr plane trip, especially in economy class?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AA_battery
that’s on a AA battery, read that link, says
Nickel metal hydride (NiMH) AAs are also available in various capacities ranging from 1400 to 2900 mAh.
Also, it’s not good to charge ANYTHING in your car. It throws too much power unless you have an amplifier to cut the power down. Now, you are driving around with a big box in your car and then your PSP is plugged into that. I don’t think your mommy and daddy will like that.
This is a great idea especially if you don’t have the cash to dish out a new battery. Great job!
a bit of error, i just figured it out. It’s not as much as I’ve calculated.
These picture only LOOK like it’s AA, but they are actually AAA (I took out some AA battery and realize there is no way you can fit 3 AAA in there).
AAA has is less developed as the AA battery, but regardless, even if you fit 2 x 2900 mAh = 5800 mAh is still waaaayyyy more than anything sony has provided so far. (Best I found is 3200 mAh)
I was just about to e-burn you for your retarded calculations but you recovered yourself lol.
I think this is neat/ useful but you’d have to be a moron to buy a battery/ use an old one to do this when there are already things like this that you can buy from the store. I’d only consider modding my older battery if it completely failed, in that case… doing this mod might not even make it work again.
Like I said (and others), you can pickup a nice, easy to use AAA battery “converter” for the psp at Best Buy for 10-15 clams. I’d look into it if you are interested in this.
you forgot to say darkpacman
thats funny ,
but 3 AAA wich is 1.5 volt makes only 4.5
aney way if you use rechargeabl batterys this is a great idea in case if you run out of battery you can just stop by in grosry store and by 3 batterys and you r good to go !lol
u see tho, AAA is running on 1.2V usually. so 3 AAA is same thing as the factory Sony battery running at 3.6v
You’re a moron. Everything you’ve written so far is completely wrong and insanely backwards. Stop while you only look stupid. If you keep typing we’re all going to think you’re retarded.
grosry
shut up cumlips.
hate to say it but thats not original ive seen that being sold already
3×900mah nimh aaa’s = 3.6v 900mah, not 4.5v 2700mah, so, much less than an original psp battery.
not 3.6v 2700mah, even.
Batteries in serial multiply the voltage not ampere hours, batteries in parallel multiply the ampere rating not voltage.
Like some homebrew out there, good effort but flawed.
I rather use a USB battery box (4X 2700mAh NiMH AA MAHAs~ 4.8V->USB port). Handy for powering other USB-linked devices eg. MP3 Player, and Power-greedy WiFi hotspot web browsing.
I’m confused by “calculation”, isn’t this mod for AAAs. So if he/she can tell me who makes 2700mAh AAAs, let me know. I’d love to get some better still if they’re rechargable. ;-p
The highest capacity AAA NiMH I know are 1000mAhs.
McGyver huh?…
How ’bout a mobile phone battery, staples and chewing gum.
Very nice :D Now we just need a Mass production of them :P
Shut up about the damn batteries already!!!!
why comment on a post about batteries if you don’t want to hear about batteries. Moron.
b82rez
Ha Ha this is one of the funniest Feedback i have ever read on a forum. Keep up the good work.
mod,.. please try using the sanyo’s eneloop battries,… the sales told me that it can runs 5 times longer than tehe regular alkaline battries, cause it using the new technology. some of my friends also testified, that it really works, 4 to 5 times longer in her digital camera. if it really works on psp,…
i’ll buy one psp non official battries, to make it one like yours ^^.
it’s a great mod anyway. thanks 4 sharing,…
here is the info about eneloop battries.
http://www.eneloop.info/whatseneloop.html
please informed us, if u tried it.
thanks bro
How about Pandora creating on this?
What about using an iPod battery? I know those are small. Especially for the iPod Video.
Just a thought.