Professional Laptop Battery Analyzer - LFC 

Just signed in to say thanks for uploading this video. I watched the Sorin one first, and this was the icing on the cake. Much appreciate your time and efforts for making this crystal clear.

Big shout out to you for the transparency with this re-upload. The honesty and care you give your fans is very much appreciated. And I will follow and support you for those 2 reasons. Look forward to more quality videos. Stay safe my dude. ✌

I really got a charge out of your new diagnostics tool as you gave it a battery of tests. I am seriously amped up and I think this is a positive move and a guaranteed sell for this product. 👍😎

Hey Adam! Just found this video of yours. I bought one of these for work but I've never had time to properly research how to use it. This video is brilliant, I can't wait to get to work and try your tips out on it!

Man you're really inspiring. Truth is, there is almost no shop that repairs stuff in my city because we kind of throw things and buy new ones given the high cost of labour but if I had your skills and knowledge I think I'd go all in to make a small computer repair shop. The idea sounds daunting. I hate when I can't fix something and I know it's gonna happen all the time. Thanks for sharing your stuff on RU-vid. Wish you all the best.

Very Handy to Have! Thanks for sharing this with us Graham!

This tool saved us a lot of time getting over discharged batteries back to life. What is even better, that getting support for every question is easy and fast on their forums!

I have this device and this review helped me learn even more. If any one is interested it is a great tool and having a database of connection for multiple batteries is great. Definitely worth the money. Thanks Adamant and NIP for a great device and a good information

Got mine! I love this thing. I have like 30 batteries laying around my shop that I have no clue what the status of them are. This tool is super handy.

This is an amazing product. It gives back life to so many batteries that will be otherwise recycled.

UPDATE: Now NLBA comes with 10 FREE Days for Reset/Unlock/Repair option. Easy to recover the investment. For existing customers, 10 FREE Days for Reset Option can be offered upon request. Another great review. You explained very well the features of this device. I would like to add some more info to avoid any confusions: If the battery is in Lock state it cannot be "Revived". If a battery has bad cells then nothing in the world can "repair" the battery. Steps to repair a battery: 1. Detect the defect (in many cases it is due to over discharged cells) -> NLBA can do it 2. Fix the defect by replacing the cells or bring all cells to the same voltage. 3. Reset/Reprogram the chip to clear the errors (NLBA for the moment supports BQ8030 chip reset and I will add more chips soon). This step is very difficult because all chips are secured. Latest chips have even SHA256 bit. 4. Analyze the cells voltages by measuring the internal resistance and tracking the voltage under load -> NLBA can do it.

I don’t think this product is useful “to us” in its current form. But due to its low cost, I bought one anyway, in hopes it’s future development will yield better capabilities “for us”. I think this device would sell like crazy, if it could write to internal controllers. Replacing cells and unlocking the chip, would be a HUGE game changer. Without that, it’s just a glorified reporting machine IMHO. I’m with Graham, if a battery is bad with a locked chip, why bother. Nothing this device can do. It’s cheaper and less of a headache to just buy new $20-$30 batteries.

In playbook days when you discharged it Right down and it refused to charge even leaving it plugged in overnight a trick called stack charging got the battery up to the minimum enough to charge !basically you plugged in the charger and then immediately out a score or so of times if nothing, you repeated it. It works by putting in a tiny amount of charge at a time until the control board wakes up and charges normally. Never chuck dead battery packs out its generally a dead cell the rest maybe fine ,i power all my torches with old laptop batteries you just have to use a small pcb charge circuit (from ebay) to safely charge them as the batteries themselves do not have built in protection circuits or a decent charger with overheat protection as bad ones heat up fast!

Excelente Review, yo sigo esperando la unidad después de dos meses en tránsito espero llegue pronto saludos gracias por su tiempo

Hello, I have had this tool since May 2020, I mainly use it for battery diagnosis. In software version 3.0, the pinout detection is also very helpful.

I have bought this tool to test my big lot of laptop batteries, about 1000pcs. It helps me a lot to see which one is working and how good it is. You don't need lots of laptops to test the batteries. Just one NLBA and you are done. Version 3.00 is great because it shows Battery Pinout, you don't need to search for clock, data, gnd, system present. I am happy with this product.

After the video from sorin, I bought this product. A well-made product. Very simple software, easy for everyone. You don't need a specialized technician. Very good communication with support, forum involved. Resetting, calibrating, testing, all with just a few clicks, I recommend it to everyone.

Its good explanation of the unit and got my own unit. the unit is good for assessment and testing of a lot of different laptop batteries. This unit has also capability to fix errors on the batteries like locked and wrong cell info.

Thanks for another great video! I might have to pick one of those up, I have a super old Toshiba Satellite A40 I want to restore, there I cannot find any type of replacement battery or charger. And come across a bunch of dead batteries pretty often. Thanks for making this video and the review :-) have a nice night or day!

Great stuff. Thanks for sharing. Cheers, Nico

what, no 20% discount code? lol. great vide btw. appreciate the honesty in the description and the re-upload :)

Great video / great that you show mistakes on way as educates everyone if they come across that problem / thank you

that's a super-cool tool! Thanks for the review!

Nice bit of kit, but the biggest problem I have found with laptop batteries is when the control chip renders the whole battery faulty locking it from being used ever again. If this machine will be able to reset locked control chips in the future it will turn it from a handy tool to have into a must have tool.

Great review, very useful!

Best device for laptop batteries and happy to see chip reset option which allow me make and repair old laptop batteries

Great review! I so want one!

Once again Great Video.

Well done review!

This is fully worth the price, since I bought this this was very usefull

Update 3.3.0 worked very well, is better now than it used to be, very good. THANKS

Wow that’s a pretty nice tool thanks for sharing👍

I'm glad I read the description. I thought I'd traveled through a worm-hole or something! I was about to rush out and get winning lottery tickets 😂😂😂🇬🇧

Mmm 225,= dollar is it worthy for getting old batteries alive. For that money you can buying several new ones. But you're explanation is spot on and give us inside information that a battery is not just some cells in a row....🔋🔋🔋 Thanks Graham.

I highly recommend this device. no other device in market compete this one.

Great video and thaks for sharing! Greetings from Mexico City.

Very good Product!

Использую это чудо устройство уже на протяжении месяца . Это самая шикарная вещь которую я приобрел . Так как очень много батарей после коматоза отремонтированы и нашли своих владельцев:)

Hi to everyone! I would like to thank the person who design and develop this NLBA device. There is a loot of good batteries out there those manufacturers are locking just to make people spend money! Let us be honest if any of us peasants would do such thing we would go to jail! This Analyser have helped me sort through my battery stock. Many of them turn out to be in great shape. I had completely unresponsive batteries that I was able to awake, charge, grade and I learned that battery that was made in 2008 have 89% life in it and the cells are great having only 22 ohms of resistance…. CRAZY. I think this is so far the best device I bought this year a specially that it was not too expensive. This will be handy every day in my line of business as I resell laptop parts! Thank you! I have no problem recommending that to other people who have knowledge and a bit of common sense…. This will not repair any bad cells as this is impossible - bad cell needs to be replaced but it will do miracles when it comes to good cells that was blocked by so called protection! Anyone who deals with laptops or other electronics that use this type of battery should have this on hand! Period! I only hope that it will be constantly developed, that owner will take on board users suggestions as I bet there will be many and that we can save at least 50% of them batteries going to waist and destroying our planet! Once again Thank YOU!

I bumped into the Fuel gauge stuff years ago (when Laptop batteries were NiMH) and 'talked' to the chips a few times with an LPT interface, one thing I found was that running a few charge/discharge cycles then forcing a re-cal often gave much better results, I wonder if that would be the case with the recovered HP pack?

That's a great bit of equipment :-D, it also shows the cheap batterys for what they really are. I have had to jumpstart batterys to get them to talk again, but the case has to be cracked open and power applied. An odd cell that's stubborn can be charged a bit as well.

The website seems to have fallen asleep and isn't responding. Will check it later when hopefully it is back.

Thanks man I really appreciate your video was helpful.. But I wish you can make a video on how to connect the uniform short wire of battery connector , Like how it can be connected to the socket and batteries too... Am talk about making connect internal batteries to the device...

Great! Enjoyed that one =D

world no 1 Device and excelent Teem they Developed this and also making Video for us

This is a comprehensive device. I love what it can apparently do. It should be noted that the hardware and basic, but nice looking, software simply test and diagnose batteries. To reset the safety features of overly discharged batteries, for possible recovery, one must subscribe to their error clearing software to the tune of $200- a year..... Code to twiddle with the bits of TI gauging chips is free from TI.

we just got our device today and after having a fiddle with some batteries we've managed to get a couple of them up and running again. Its one of those tools we will be wondering how we did without it

Thanks for the video Graham (must have missed it first time around). I would get one cos it's cool even though I don't have a repair business. Usually on car batteries you connect positive first then negative and reverse when disconnecting. Don't know if this applies laptop batteries though.

well made video

It's such a good review.. I have bought 1 device i got it today i'm already testing and it's good device i hope for new updates mostly RESET part it's much interesting

Its made in Romania, city near by me, i have this tool, very very handy

Dell D600 battery (C1295) With a jumper between Ground and the SYS PRESENT pin I can measure voltage and discharge the battery using a R/C charger /discharger. However I can not charge at the out most pins. No current flow goes into the battery. If I put the battery back in the laptop it will charge it full again. Would you know if I need another jumper to allow the battery to accept charging?

Does anyone know what camera he uses for showing his bench top? I’d really like to start recording my repairs for easy of putting things back together.

Hearing "Batt-Trees" will never stop amusing me.

The one thing that was not brought up in this video is the perspective of battery building and repairs. The controller in the battery is pre-programmed at the factory, and it follows the life of the original cells. However, when you go into the battery and replace a cell, the controller must be re-programmed. Even worse, if you do a total rebuild of a battery for, example a laptop where the battery is no longer available, a full re-programming of controller for the newly replaced cells is necessary. Some people think that, for example cell two is bad, I can just go in there with a spot welder and replace the battery, and the controller will automatically recognize it. No, it won't, and you need a tool like the NLBA1 to perform a full re-programming of the controller. So yes, this might not be as valuable in a PC repair shop, as most repairs are just part swaps. But if your business is building custom batteries, or re-building batteries for older laptops, then this is a killer tool to have.

Wow, that thing is sweet.

hi for apple battery what number of resister that you connect from T to G

What an interesting little device! Lots of fun for battery nerds 😆🌱 and for putting new cells into old batteries I imagine. I wonder if it could be put to use to allow LifePO4 cells to be fitted for a less explosive risk (but less runtime) edition laptop?

Typo in the output report, chemistry is spelt wrong

Whenever I'm doing wiring for a device that is used on a Raspberry Pi 3/4, that uses I2C I use the same colors wires, but I make the yellow wire the clock wire and green is data. I'm going to get one of these battery analyzers, I'll need to save up for it.

Very easy to use.

When the battery is drained, the button cell drains it to below 0%. For Asus, this minimum is 3.33 V for all pairs of cells. The draining lasts for 3 days. For Acer, this process lasts for 3 weeks. That's important for the battery maintanance, but only professionals do this. When the battery is in perfect shape, the laptop reaches its maximum even if it is Ac online with the battery is removed. A bad battery inserted can disable the performance gained by the new battery.

Im fixing vintage laptop and I need to recover it, dont have spare part. Any tips? Siemens Nixdorf 710, 510, PCD-4ND, PCD-5ND, Compaq LTE 5300. All these I have and want to fix.

The links mentioned in the video are the right links to buy this device. The person whose number mentioned on the website is very professional and supportive person. Machine is very useful if you know how to use it. The machine ACTUALLY does reach your address when you order it. We are initially hesitant to order but once we spoke to the person, all issues were sorted. 5/5 for service and and support. Thanks!

Last October I bought Tester firmware version 1.10. I use it almost every day from the moment of purchase. The number of revived battery is high

Nice bro

"Adam" has the best toys😁

cool and informative video, i was messing about with a used t410s battery and lenovo power manager, i managed to increase its capacity by repeatedly charging and discharging it like 4 times, however then i run prime95 while discharging and the battery droped abruptly from like 70% to 5% even tough it worked just fine with a light load, the capacity in power manger also dropped, i was kinda disappointed but something to look out for

Hi, I have just purchased this device but am having issues getting batterys to read.. any advice?

We need something like this for mobile phone

perfekt work

Learn an important stuffs.. thank you..

Love the videos. Maybe you can help me with an issue. Have a a320m hd2 board with a ryzen 5 1400 i cannot get video from it. I have tried reseating the cpu. I have tried different psu different ram. Tried both ram slots with all 3 brands of ram gskill trident z corsair vengeance and some micron.i have also tried 2 different gpus different cables. I have use the clear cmos jumper have removed the cmos battery still nothing. Just put all my money into this and im jist stumped.

My macbook air (late 2010) had no charge (charger broken and didn't need the laptop) and sat without charge in it for around 9 months (i think, or longer). To my surprise it did charge up all on it's own (incredibly slowly at first... macos said 0% for about an hour..). The large internal resistance probably explains why i've got an old laptop, and under heavy CPU load at below 80% battery, it'll just cut out.. it's an old cheap replacement.. likely voltage droops under heavy load below minimum cutoff.

My laptop batteries are dead. I would like to use a power bank with all the features of a laptop bms and power it(laptop) up. The power bank shall replace ac and internal battery. Is it possible to design such a configuration and how would the pinouts be. Thanking you in advance.

what a great video - how to learn from a Professional ;;

The most wonderful function of this device is to activate the battery in my countless sleep, and you can know the condition of internal batteries without disassembling the battery

Link from where to order tester?

Does the chip inside the laptop battery handle cell balancing? On rc lipo batteries you have a separate balance lead in addition to the power leads that connects on to the smart charger. I wouldnt force charge a battery and leave it unattended otherwise you could come back to a fire

Nice 👍

This is indeed a very nice device and I've seen it before and I really like it, though I can't see too many uses for it if you think about it - the average service centers will not bother with "consumables". They'll just toss the battery and get a new one - no need working out if it's dead or not :)) The only reason to get is to get serious use out of it and that would only happen if your shop specializes in batteries or enforces some sort of rule about giving out a full report on ever battery in the products that come in. If it can't yet hack into the controller chips to reset them and make refurbishing batteries possible, it wouldn't see much use. Even after the fact, a replacement battery would probably outweigh the time/effort needed to replace cells and stuff...

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Good morning my friend you could make a video for this 2F8K3 battery for dell Alienware 17r1 for the battery model if the machine can activate it and pass the driver on the cip I would greatly appreciate it to make a video for that battery and Show us the connection to the terminals thanks very much with appreciation ...!!???

Καλημέρα φίλε μου θα μπορούσες να κάνεις ένα βίντεο για τη συγκεκριμένη μπαταρία 2F8K3 για Dell Alienware 17R1 για το μοντέλο της μπαταρίας αν το μηχάνημα μπορεί να την ενεργοποιήσει και να περάσει τους driver στο cip θα το εκτιμούσα πολύ να κάνεις ένα βιντεάκι για τη συγκεκριμένη μπαταρία και να μας δείξεις η συνδεσμολογία στους ακροδέκτες ευχαριστώ πολύ με εκτίμηση...!!??

You can charge the battery direct. Without the chip to jumpstart it. Drill 2 holes and charge it.

pretty cool toy for your shop

Do you have a coupon code for this? I am about to buy.

You would really use the AutoCycle/calibration if you replaced a cell (or all the cells) in a battery so that the controller updates to recognise as much

What a great instrument and software? I'd never heard of it. Can we recharge a battery (i mean when the voltage has got too low that it couldn't be charged by itself) with a power supply only using positive and negative pins? Thank you very much

The current graphed in blue seems upside down as increasing current goes down the screen. Gentle ramp er 'up' in current to start is good to see.

I want one of these.

Can you use this tool to rewrite the battery capacity after adding higher capacity cells?

Please, I have some questions. Does he reprogram the battery ... Does it explain the damaged cell ... Does the device have uses other than the laptop battery, I hope that there will be a complete explanation for the use in a simplified way I need one and how much is the cost of shipping to Egypt

dont you have a website?

Check the date format on the report, it's in the American style of MM/DD/YYYY and can be misleading as to when the test was actually carried out.

how and where can i buy it i'm from Tunisia..??

that's a nice toy you got there!

Dam. Its Sold out!

It's ideal for checking for bad cells which might be replaceable? I have a Toshiba netbook which I bought for light use before tablets became very popular and less expensive, after 5-6yrs of non use I fired it up and the battery was dead! I took a punt and started to remove and install the battery hoping it would jolt it into starting, after about 15-20min it finally woke up, I initially thought the battery wouldn't be any good but after 3-4 charges its like new with about 10% wear on it! Now all I've got to do is replace the battery on my Samsung note! 😂

Will it work with Power Bank battery or Type C or Micro USB connectors without taking out the battery inside? Thanks!