Saving the battery bay

[yves1984]

a post from razor (http://sudomod.com/forums/topic/saving-the-battery-bay/):
Anyone thought about trying to save the battery bay? All of my parts haven’t come in yet but I’m thinking of ditching the teensy and extra microusb breakout board to make more room for the remaining components.

I looked pics others have posted and looks like everyone has drilled/cut out parts of it so far.

I’m thinking about buying 3-4 14500 lithium ion cells, soldering them together with a power management circuit and a jst connector and using the battery bay to house it.

Should give me the same capacity as the battery used in the build in a form factor that already fits in the DMG.

Here the battery:
http://www.batteryspace.com/lithium-ncm ... ssed–.aspx

And protection circuit:
http://www.batteryspace.com/PCB-for-3.7 ... limit.aspx


I hade the same idea today but don't know if it works

[razor]

I think it'll work. I'm gonna mount a female JST (https://www.adafruit.com/products/1769) connector in the battery bay so the battery can hook up to it. I'm not entirely sure on the screen buttons yet but it looks like I need to remove the buttons on that panel and solder on lower profile ones. The good news is that those buttons I'm removing will be the same buttons I need to do the shoulder buttons that @wermy did.

The left side of the back housing has 2 brackets that seems perfect for holding the LCD adjustment board.

http://imgur.com/a/CeMdV

[Thijs852]

I'm also planning to safe the battery bay. I order some jst connectors to connect the battery and I want to use one of these https://www.adafruit.com/products/504 so i can replace the 3 buttons by using only one button.

[yves1984]

perhabs i will see some pic before i have all the parts
so i can choos witch is the best way and witch patrt i will need (akku/Battery)

[razor]

@Thijs852 @yves1984

Just posted my progress pics here if you wanted to see what I'm doing in the battery bay: http://www.sudomod.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=76