I’ve been seeing a lot of talk on other forum posts about battery extenders, and the common consensus I see across all of them is that usually people are just buying a USB battery bank to keep their laptop going. This isn’t an unacceptable solution, but I personally would like something that’s a bit more purpose-built for Frameworks, specifically my 16” model or something that works on all 3 currently available sizes. All the posts I saw are from 2024 or before, so I figure I’d see if anything has changed since then. Does anything exist for this purpose, or are we still left with USB batteries as our only current option?
I’m actually kind of surprised that the Framework 16 doesn’t have an ‘extra battery’ expansion. I wonder if it’s for legal reasons around the maximum battery size allowed in airplanes.
No, you can have multiple 99.99Wh batteries with you for the laptop.
https://www.faa.gov/hazmat/packsafe/lithium-batteries
It’s risk avoidance. @nrp mentioned avoiding invention-related risk when talking about the Framework Desktop. The strategy would apply to all of their products, I assume.
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Nah, it’s fine. the limit is 100wh, but you can have multiple batteries on a flight. After all, the other companies released their own second batteries.
Would charging even work through the connector? Or is that where the problem lies?!
Not for legal but for technical reasons. How to connect the second, hot swappable battery into the circuit? In parallel? The voltage must be precisely matched before connection, so hot convenient or hot swappable. Use an additional DC-DC converter? Energy loss and additional bug, see how many CPUs stuck at 544MHz on FL16 with only one battery.