Could you possibly post a pic of it installed/uninstalled? One more question....does it make the eee less prone to tipping backwards (ie like on the couch) when screen is open? Thanks for the report!

JBDan wrote:

Could you possibly post a pic of it installed/uninstalled? One more question....does it make the eee less prone to tipping backwards (ie like on the couch) when screen is open? Thanks for the report!

I'll try and get some pics sorted out later today, Jon may well beat me to it tho
I'd say it's less prone to tipping actually, as the extension is straight out from the back (about 10mm rather than the 5 I put in my first post.. I was looking across the room at it when I typed!!!).

It's currently on recharge (I don't like recharging brand new batteries over night, after the few 'explosive' episodes which have been reported), so once it's back up I'll be doing another similar test to Jon.

It looks like calibrating it is pretty important, when I first plugged it in and recharged it stuck at 2% charge, and stayed there for the whole of yesterdays test.

Wow awesome pics thx so much! I like it....it's not as big as I thought it would be. So....what has your feeling been on the new battery keeping the screen from being opened out all the way? I don't think it would bother me as I never find myself opening it that far. Thx again for the pics I will be ordering  6600mah soon. The battery life seems to be great!

Jon Bradbury wrote:

I'm doing a performance test of this battery right now.

With Brightness & volume at 50%, it managed to repeatedly play an AVI from the internal SSD (on a 900) for over 5 hours. That's with wifi off. The current test is with wifi on (as I have tested all the other batteries, including the smaller CS battery) is still running. When it completes, I will be writing up a short review for the eeeuser blog (that's the news items on the front page).

I can confirm similar performance - I watched an AVI file on the train (full brightness and high volume - on headphones) for about 45 minutes, and did about half an hour of typing, and the battery went from 90% to 70%. I would therefore expect to get around 5 hours of non-wifi usage from a full-charged battery, which compares very favourably with the 2.5-3 hours I'm getting from the 4400.

Report in the press about one of the 10400mAh batteries over heating and causing terminal (as in DEAD!) damage to the eee.  Not covered by the ASUS guarantee as the battery was not of an approved i.e. ASUS  make.

Apparently during charging the battery overheated and the Lithium gel in the battery went POP!! Not a major bang but sufficient to cause damage.  (this may also be scare mongering as it's only a single instance or a duff battery)

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Where can we get this here in the U.S.?

I'm just wondering, what bios versions are you using??  Also for the testing conditions, how fast is the processor running?

Thanks in advance for your comments and experiences! I'm on the verge of ordering one of those 6600 batteries

jpxdude wrote:

I'm just wondering, what bios versions are you using??  Also for the testing conditions, how fast is the processor running?

Thanks in advance for your comments and experiences! I'm on the verge of ordering one of those 6600 batteries

Buy it. You won't regret it, not for what Clove are asking.

The test machine has the original 900 BIOS 0302. I didn't want to upgrade and lose the performance / power saving mode switch (and I understand the auto feature does not work properly either in the later BIOS version).

It's interesting to me that so many people are getting such horrible battery life with the stock ASUS battery.  My 900 with standard 5800mah battery will run for 3 hours or more with wireless on surfing the net, listening to internet radio, etc...  The only thing I have set is cpufreq with a min of 450mhz ondemand.  It chugs along at 450mhz for the most part, but when it needs the proc it pushes up to 900mhz without a second thought then clocks back down when it's done.  Once I get my 900 back from ASUS (16G SSD went bad yesterday) I'll pick up one of these 6600mah batteries just to see what I can get.

Not all roses on this I am afraid
While I am getting a cracking runtime from this battery, I currently can only do it with the auto shutdown etc disabled as XP is flagging the battery as faulty and showing it constantly charged at 2% (this is under XP). This is even after doing the battery calibration process (probably about 6 times now )
I have a call in to Clove, so keeping my fingers crossed that they can either give me a solution, or change the battery.

Jon, was your test under XP or Linux ? if it was XP did it read the % capacity correctly (with no red X) ? and did you have to do the calibration process ?

I've just returned my battery to Clove. I found the inability to open the lid fully too restrictive. Others may not find it a problem but it's worth bearing in mind.

http://www.duracelldirect.co.uk/info/about.html

DuracellDirect is the Duracell licensee PSA Parts Ltd. They sell Duracell AS WELL AS OEM and replacement batteries. So the "ASUS" batteries they sell may be third party products, not Duracell.