With tightening budgets and needed repairs it is time to consider doing it yourself. However, having the right type of tools to complete the job is essential, whether you are fixing the door hinges or putting up crown molding to give some character to your living room.

The basic rule of getting a replacement battery is that it should have the same voltage as the original. An 18V drill cannot run on a 12V battery. It can only run on a 18V battery. The other thing is that the physical packaging of a battery can be different from company to company. A 12V Ryobi battery may not fit into a 12V Makita cordless drill unless the battery has the right physical dimensions. So make sure the replacement battery looks the same as the old one before you order it. Also, if you are looking for a replacement battery of the same voltage rating and by the same company, know that battery technology is changing rapidly. An 18V lithium-ion battery has a different physical packaging than a NiCad 18V battery.

4) Size: terms like slim, ultra slim, main, and extended are commonly used by different vendors and is normally determined by the battery type and capacity. You can offset this by selecting a battery made from lithium stock ion or lithium polymer since they pack more power in the same amount of space.

The first thing to know is that simple battery care can enhance the performance and useful life of your cell phone battery. Did you know that a cell phone battery should last for up to 400 charge/discharge cycles? That's quite a bit. How does that break down? If you charge your phone each night, your battery will last 12-15 months. If you are only charging twice a week, your battery should last 2-3 years. So, if you can get away with charging less, then that's a sure fire way to getting longer life.

While most beginners will opt to Lithium battery stocks play it safe by getting a ready-made boat that can be used right out of the box others might be a little more adventurous preferring to get a kit for DIY assembly. The latter may seem like hard work but there's a certain satisfaction in knowing you've built your boat from scratch. Parts can also be replaced with better alternatives during construction for a truly unique masterpiece.

Lithium mines Ontario-Ion batteries are revolutionary in fact, not just simply better than Ni-Cd. They don't have memory effect, which means you can easily use them a little and then partially recharge them just to discharge them to a certain percentage of their capacity other than zero. They like partial charges and discharges better than full ones, but memory effect is not something you should be aware of.

Memory effect will reduce the life of a battery. Modern Lithium-ion batteries do not suffer from memory effect, although it does occur in Nickel-Metal Hydride (NiMH) units when charged from levels other than 0% of battery capacity. If the (NiMH) unit was fully charged when initially at say 20% capacity, the resulting available capacity would only be 80% of the factory original. Of course every time you charged the battery, the total available capacity would reduce and eventually your mobile phone would prove to be increasingly useless. Nearly all new electronic devices are now powered by Lithium batteries. You should always condition your (NiMH) battery from new.

Step 4 - Connect in the newly bought battery to the board of the iPod (where you unconnected the old battery) and set it on the glue that remained on the hard drive. Make sure that the battery and the wires are set properly so you can actually close the iPod. Snap the cover back together, you'll hear it when it's finished!