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pnhicks:
Hi Lucy,


You're still lucky (hehe, I crack me up), that your shipper is collaborating, although they should have been aware that loose batteries wouldn't pass the postal Nazis, I mean, hard working civil servants of course. 


There are no fully functional original Ugobe NiMH batteries (that haven't been repacked by a previous owner), so any second hand Ugobe will have this issue.  That is why the majority of them are on sale, "my Pleo just says huh and goes to sleep!", or "my Pleo runs for 5 mins and then goes to sleep."


You get the idea.  Not too many people bother to replace the battery, i.e. they can't find one on Ebay, or little Susie or Joey is now into Instagram, Fornite, or college.


But you, the Pleo adventurist, know about battery repacking, so all is well, undaunted, you move bravely into the future to face the challenges ahead!


Cheers!


Peter

LucyK5:
Haha I don’t mind my new nickname here, maybe it’s keeping me lucky with my pleos! :D

I don’t expect the ugobe battery to work well, I just need to get it into the country so that I can have it repacked! Already spoke to a local battery store who are prepared to try and repack it for me with “quality yuasa cells”, whatever those are! :P

I am bummed about the loss of the extra rb battery though, that would have been really handy but I’ll just have to go without since it seems near impossible to ship a battery if it isn’t installed in something!

pnhicks:
Hi Lucky Lucy!

Yuasa (from what I could find on the www) are makers of a very high tech LI ion cell that is used mainly in military/space/ocean floor exploration applications (read costly). 

They also have a line of vehicle batteries  (not sure if it's the same firm).

They seem to specialize in custom order stuff for industry rather than off the shelf to retail customer, but who knows what is available in Australia?  Your water even goes down the drain backwards, roo guards on cars, summer at Christmas :D :D ?? 

I told you I crack me up, or maybe I'm just on crack?  It was one of those!

Who knows maybe you'll have the first Pleo that can go in space or to the Challenger Deep?

Oh I gotta stop for now, my sides are hurting, must be heat, is it hot in here?

Take care

Peter


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