Lithium Ion Cordless Phone Battery For Uniden ELX500

List Price: $24.02 Discount Price: $6.98

Customer Reviews:

BT-0002 battery for Uniden ELX500 [Posted on 2007-01-17]
I needed a new battery for my Uniden ELX500 (I submitted a battery related review under the ELBT595, but I don't know if Amazon will post it or not).

Batteries from the manufacturer were quite a bit more than the Amazon price. I really prefer buying through Amazon so I bought the Amazon battery even though it was a third party battery.

I was disappointed when I found it wouldn't fit in the phone! I fiddled with it a while and there was no way it would physically fit. It's important to be gentle with Lithium Ion batteries because if they are damaged they may burst (the thermal runaway problems some notebook PC batteries were having in 2006 were an example of what can happen). So I can't recommend any one try this, but I carefully filed down ONE edge of the battery (on the plastic part ONLY, no where near the actual battery body) a TINY BIT (yes: tiny, small, minuscule, if too much is taken off the contacts may not make firm contact resulting in intermittent problems and if way too much is taken off you may cut into battery body and at the very best destroy the battery), just enough for it to slip in.

After that it worked great. No problems so far. Nice run time. I'm not sure whether to give it one star because buyers shouldn't need to file on it, or five stars because it works once it's installed. Because I don't know if all the batteries have the problem mine did, I'm just submitting this comment and I'm going to give it four stars because although a bit annoying in the beginning, in the end it did what I wanted.

Didn't last [Posted on 2008-03-16]
This battery for my Uniden 500 was hard to find so I was initially glad to find it but, I'm looking for a new one within a year. Keep looking!

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