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I might have already fried the one when I was tinkering with them. I'll have to wait and see. Does anyone know of a proper way to charge these things without actually having a laptop? There is one negative pin and one positive pin, but there is also a "ground" that needs to be engaged in...

I just bought 2 cheap laptop battery packs locally for $5 each. They are both 11.1v. One has 9 18650 cells in it, the other has 6. As such the Ah for the batteries is different. Is it possible to simply wire the 2 packs in series? What complications will I encounter? I am planning on...

I came across a free hull of a 1995 Seadoo SPX that came with the jet pump. I thought it would be a fun project to turn it into a mini boat that my kids can ride around in, so I chopped it up. Since a seadoo 587 engine runs at about 6100 RPMs under normal conditions with the pump loaded, I...