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25-01-2008, 19:50

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Re: XBox remote

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Originally Posted by tseres

the best way is to buy another backup battery and splice on a pluggy thingy to power it.

The chicklet comes with a solder-on 2.1mm coax connector for the backup battery. It is not too difficult to make a backup battery (2 pin molex) to 2.1mm converter out of the IFI backup battery adapter used on the RC. You can buy the adapter for $2.50 on IFI's website, use an old one, or make one if you have the parts & tools.

There should be no need to splice backup battery wires and existing 2.1mm coax connectors. It would be difficult to charge a backup battery with a coax connector.

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