Has anyone luck with finding a suitable battery?
The battery is very common the ML 1220 or do you mean the cable?
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I mean something that is proven to be working with the right battery and connector.
Well ‘proven’ you mean you want someone else to test a purchase.
The battery is the rechargeable ML 1220, which you can by with the 2 pin plug or buy a plug and wire and make one.
What do you think could be the problem?
The battery terminals are marked + and - and the cables are red and black.
The voltage will be around 3V when new and the laptop is set up to charge it automatically.
All you have to do is buy and plug it in.
You can even check the battery pins on the board, which should be around 3.1V 3.2v I doubt and the ML 1220 voltage, from 2.8v to 3v
Framework note the battery as an ML 1220 and mention the plug as a 2 pin Molex
Various manufacturers, Panasonic, KTS etc.
I am a normal customer without the equipment to check if the battery is the correct one and is correctly wired. I prefer a solution which does not need such checks and does not damage the mainboard eventually.
If you able to open the laptop and do manual labour, you are not a ‘normal’ customer, in that you are inept.
Framework have made it clear the battery is a rechargeable one. It’s designation is ML 1220 that’s Magnesium Lithium. The 1220 is the size 12mm wide and 2.0 mm thick, see the first link below.
Here are some links. The first shows a Maxell but Framework used a KTS. They can be different brands but the specs are the same
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On my site: http://217.155.51.23/newdevices/framework/ML1220.php
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Topics on this site:
Any such battery with a cable and two pin plug should be fine. You can see the socket it plugs in and buy one with the appropriate plug, though I doubt there are many options. At the worst you would buy the wrong one and have to return it.
Still it’s easy enough to tell and you could go to a shop.
Looks like the RTC battery is available now on the market place for a fair price. I can put it in the shopping cart but once I hit the check out button, I get the error:
That’s a little bit ironic, since they do not ship the RTC battery with new laptops in the first place. It would be nice if this restriction could be lifted for laptop owners.
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We might not have this item in stock in the warehouse in your region. If you can share the link of the product and your region/country, I can check it for you. Thanks!
It was exactly the same message in the UK
Thank you both, I’ve reported this issue.
Quick update, looks like we do not have this item in stock at the moment, however you can join the waitlist. We will send an email when the item becomes available in the marketplace.
I just checked the marketplace and it seems like it is now available for purchase.
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Yeah I can’t by it in the UK either. More than that my bords won’t even turn on without one it really sucks I’d even pre order one I just want a working system
It’s the same error again for me, I can add it to the shopping cart, but it wont let me check out.
That may be a different issue
Trying to use it in standalone mode.
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It may be worth checking the connector but there are multiple vendors of the ML 1220 with cables and 2 pin connectors, though better check the connectors and cable length
That’s a large capacity battery and charging it would take a while and the voltage is too high at 3.7V not 3.2V
Just to let anyone else know that if you want to use the amd board in standalone mode you will need a RTC battery
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