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Hi everyone.
A few days ago I received a battery for DS Lite purchased on eBay, which should have been original, as explicitly specified.
Trying to insert it in the battery slot I realized that it did not fit, it was actually bigger than almost a millimeter.
I had to remove the plastic sticker that covered it, and that already showed that it was not original: in the picture you can see the result.
Even so I had to force it in a bit, and it barely fit.
Turning on the console I feared that, if the voltage was too high, it would blow out some resistor. Fortunately, that didn't happen.
But as I feared, and suspected, this battery lasts considerably less than the previous original one.
Using an r4 it lasted less than 2 hours before the red light came on.
After charging, using only the gba SuperCard (slot2) it lasted a little over an hour.
Bottom line, I put the previous battery back in. Am I to conclude that all the batteries for DS Lite on eBay are fake, cheap and worse than the originals? At least it didn't damage my console, as those other 2000 mAh batteries that also sell on eBay and cost even less seem to do.
Is there any battery that is reliable and trustworthy? And where to find them?
A few days ago I received a battery for DS Lite purchased on eBay, which should have been original, as explicitly specified.
Trying to insert it in the battery slot I realized that it did not fit, it was actually bigger than almost a millimeter.
I had to remove the plastic sticker that covered it, and that already showed that it was not original: in the picture you can see the result.
Even so I had to force it in a bit, and it barely fit.
Turning on the console I feared that, if the voltage was too high, it would blow out some resistor. Fortunately, that didn't happen.
But as I feared, and suspected, this battery lasts considerably less than the previous original one.
Using an r4 it lasted less than 2 hours before the red light came on.
After charging, using only the gba SuperCard (slot2) it lasted a little over an hour.
Bottom line, I put the previous battery back in. Am I to conclude that all the batteries for DS Lite on eBay are fake, cheap and worse than the originals? At least it didn't damage my console, as those other 2000 mAh batteries that also sell on eBay and cost even less seem to do.
Is there any battery that is reliable and trustworthy? And where to find them?