# On the Vance Fry Dana Batt Hack
### Entered on Alphasmart Dana
### 20181227

[References procedure here.](http://vancefry.com/alphasmartian/alphasmart-dana-power-hack/)

I got my Panasonic Enerloop NiMH AA rechargable batteries 
today. The plan was to wire the rechargeable battery 
connector to the positive battery terminal. The actual 
rewiring took like five minutes (including the chasis 
disassembly). I desoldered the positive battery terminal
from the motherboard and snipped the positive wire for the
rechargable batt pack connector. I stripped this wire and 
spliced to to the wire to the positive battery terminal,
heatshrinking the splice. I reassembled the case, 
installed the Enerloops, plugged in the USB A to B cable 
to a charger, and the Dana recognized it was charging. 
This is a simple project and it adds a lot of value to the 
device after it is done. The savings in batteries alone is
tremendous.

RPoD is down right now, as I am a victim of the massive
centurylink outage in the western United States. Hopefully
they fix this soon. My Internet connection has been down 
since about 0300 this morning.