PSP 3xAAA Battery Mod Tutorial

***wraggster*** · February 3rd, 2007, 10:27

Acidmods have posted a tutorial on how to make a battery mod for your PSP with AAA batteries

Check it out Here

Personally i prefer the 2600mah battery (nearly 50% more powerful than the original Sony effort.

**Shadowblind** · February 3rd, 2007, 11:50

Looks like a very effective mod...knowing me, however, I'd just break my PSP, but if someone gets it working let us know

**pt9087** · February 3rd, 2007, 12:43

I already have one! £3 from Gamestation. it plugs into the yellow AC and takes 4AAA.

**bah** · February 3rd, 2007, 13:39

Hrms...

The psp's battery is a single cell li-ion, 3.6v.

3 rechargeable AAAs at 1.2 volts would work.

3 Non rechargeable would be 4.5, this wouldn't be enough to damage something in the psp I hope?
That image looks like a direct connection to the 3 AAAs in series, and the batteries are 1.5v non rechargeables.

The charger is 5v, it goes to a different port but i have no knowledge of how the innards are wired after that.

Seems to work for him so i guess its not a problem, at least in the short term.

**LilSwish722** · February 3rd, 2007, 13:43

this is pretty good. ...i wonder why he decided to do this lol

**xg917** · February 3rd, 2007, 15:37

yea 4 real. does it last longer than the original sony batt.?

**Veskgar** · February 3rd, 2007, 15:56

I'm guessing you'd only get about 4 hours with this. Pretty neat as a fun mod but not effecient enough to take seriously.

I just use the STAMINA battery from SONY. Charges fast and lasts long.

**Psyberjock** · February 3rd, 2007, 16:18

Check the source post and you'll find out that new batteries will only last about an hour. He's also using AAA not AA.

I also wonder if the extra volts might shorten the life of the PSP, but perhaps the circuit board that reads and reports battery level is also trimming down the voltage to the appropriate level.

**Shrygue** · February 3rd, 2007, 17:08

That battery mod look well good. I have rechageable AAA batteries that just takes 15 minutes to charge up. As they are 1000mah each putting them in a modified Sony battery should crank that up to 3000mah, that should result in nice long run times on the PSP.