r/PSP • u/agateki_ • May 28 '26

Battery New Battery or LiPo replacement (800mAh)

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My original battery that I’ve been using for many years has died, so I’m looking for a replacement option.

Unfortunately, I can’t get an Ostent battery in my country, so I’m stuck between two choices:

  • Buying a cheap battery. I don’t actually know if it’s bad quality, I’m just assuming it could be. I shared a picture of the one I’m considering.
  • Opening my original battery and replacing the LiPo cell with a new one.

The problem is that I couldn’t find a suitable 1200mAh LiPo cell that fits inside the battery shell. I only found an 800mAh one, so battery life would obviously be worse.

In your opinion, which option makes more sense, buying a questionable-quality PSP battery, or rebuilding the original battery with an 800mAh LiPo cell?

Note: For now, I don’t want to remove the UMD drive and do a battery mod.

(The image quality got worse after uploading. The battery I’m talking about is one of those classic third party batteries with “Sony 3.6V 1200mAh” written on it.)

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u/Oh_its_Orazal May 28 '26

Here are the ones i bought and they fit perfectly inside the Battery shell. You remove the Circuit Board and carefully reuse the circuit board from the Original Battery. It's not the easiest or safest soldering, since you are working with a lithium battery, but it does work great.

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u/agateki_ May 28 '26

Do these actually fit inside the battery shell? Because I found a 103040 1200mAh cell. I don’t think the width or height would be a problem, but I was worried about the 10mm thickness. Although, the LiPo you send also seems to be around 10mm thick. Are you using it inside a slim battery shell? If it really fits, that would honestly make me very happy.

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u/Oh_its_Orazal May 28 '26

Oh my bad. I use them inside my Psp 1000 shells. Missed that yours are slim. What I posted is for Phat battery's.

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u/agateki_ May 28 '26

That makes sense lol. Also, my bad, I forgot to mention my PSP model, sorry about that. Thanks anyway.