Battery upgrades for P6x Clevos ?

[Arondight]

Purchasing my Clevo felt pretty great, the CPU/GPU might be soldered but being able to pick almost everything else felt great. There's just one thing bothering me. Why are there no options for the battery ? It seems so simple. Clevo (or any 3rd party really) could easily make a larger battery that would, for exemple use the space of an unused 2.5" enclosure. Maybe not enough people would be interested, I can get that. But while there are many people DIYing eGPUs using crazy m.2 setups I can't find even one battery customization. I'm sure there is a reason but I just can't find it.

 

When seeing the 2015 MacBook Pro has a 93w/h battery in a chassis so small it's burning itself to death under load but a 1 inch Clevo only has a measly 60w/h battery I just have to ask : why ? I'd be throwing money at whoever would sell a better battery.

[octiceps]

The MBP also has a lot less hardware under the hood, so pick your poison. I mean, there's a reason Clevo DTR's since 2014 have no ODD, right?

Edited September 15, 2016 by octiceps

[Another Tech Inferno Fan]

Lenovo/IBM Thinkpads come with several battery options for each particular model.

 

There is usually the 3/4cell battery that takes up just a small amount of space.

Then there would be a medium 6cell battery that either has a protrusion out the back or increases the height of the machine.

Then there would be a large 9/12cell one that has a huge protrustion out the back.

 

 

There are also 3cell ultrabay batteries that go into the ODD slot, for some models.

 

You could DIY a massive battery pack yourself if you could build a physical case for it, and use control circuitry from the stock battery pack. Similar to re-celling, but adding more cells.

[Arondight]

What surprises me is that there isn't more options for the regular chassis. Making an entire new undercover to fit a bigger battery would be too much work for Clevo, but having a 5 well battery option for the people who don't use their 2.5" enclosure shouldn't be that hard. It's almost frustrating knowing I have a huge empty space in my laptop that could be used for battery life ahah.

Edited September 15, 2016 by Arondight

[skandal]

I have the same opinion as @Arondight I have do not use the 2.5" sata ports on my P651SE so it would be awesome to have an option for a bigger battery.

The problem with adding more cells, at least for me of course, would be the weight gain from that operation, so a rather annoying trade-off.

 

I've been looking in this forum for some ideas, and this thread by @Khenglish made me think of doing the same on my battery.

I have some issues tough:

• I don't have the necessary EEPROM flasher (it's fairly cheap)
• I don't know how to edit the battery firmware (but it does not seem complicated)
• I don't know were to buy genuine high capacity cells (maybe @Khenglish can give a hand here)
• I don't know if the cells that @Khenglish bough are of the same size as the ones present in the P650SE battery.

The first two I will try to accomplish in the coming weeks. The other two may be solved as soon as @Khenglish sees this thread

 

So... does anyone have a P651SE (or the newer skylake/pascal model) damaged battery for donation?

I'll probably do it with my own battery anyway. Being able to add battery capacity to the laptop without adding more weight would be awesome.