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Geekdad has a bunch of tips for using the round power-cells from a dead laptop battery. These cells, called “18650s,” look like AA batteries, but have very different characteristics. Your laptop battery will contain lots of these (I have a mongo long-lived Thinkpad battery that I use while travelling with nine cells), and if any one of them dies, the whole laptop battery is rendered useless.

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