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jac0b:
Also make sure out find the Positive and Negative, and under the Gigabeat PCB (take off the white protection strip) it shows which is Positive and Negative. I'll post some Pics possibly today after I get home from work.

Mad Cow:
That's no problem, I have a voltmeter for that. Pictures would be helpful, although I'm pretty sure I can do it myself.

jac0b:
I got a couple picture, I will have some that show you the process after I got some Ipod batteries to mod.
If you take the sticker off the battery you will see that the gigabeat battery has the PCB on the side while the Ipod has on top. So I soldered the gigabeat PCB on the top (note: you have to trim off some of the terminals for the gigabeat PCB to fit on top of the Ipod battery). Also make sure that the terminals don't touch the metal casing.
Pictures

soap:
This is nice news, but please put static information in the wiki.
AND
Is there a reason we trust the original battery protection PCB more than we trust the one from a 4G iPod battery?  What I'm getting at is I was under the impression that the PCB on the battery was simply a protection circuit, and not the charging circuit.  I would assume that if the 4G battery already has one, there is no need to remove it simply to replace it with another one.

jac0b:

--- Quote from: soap on September 23, 2007, 08:17:40 AM ---Is there a reason we trust the original battery protection PCB more than we trust the one from a 4G iPod battery?  What I'm getting at is I was under the impression that the PCB on the battery was simply a protection circuit, and not the charging circuit.  I would assume that if the 4G battery already has one, there is no need to remove it simply to replace it with another one.

--- End quote ---

That is true but the iPod battery has a 3 pin connection while the Gigabeat has a 2 pin connection.

Also should I post in the wiki that it is possible to use a iPod 4G battery in the Gigabeat or post how to mod the battery to work with the Gigabeat?

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