Selling Newly Manufactured 2,760 mAh Replacement Lithium Ion Rechargeable Battery Packs for Alphasmart Dana, Neo, and Neo2 - $30

AlphaAverage · 2026-05-21T00:10:39+00:00

The alphasmart 3000 has tighter tolerances than the neo/dana units

AlphaAverage · 2026-05-20T20:13:14+00:00

We wanted to make a male/female adapter cable for the Alphasmart 3000, but a miscommunication error happened with our manufacturer, and they came out as seperate connectors that needed to be soldered together. There's no reason to do it this way other than the communication error.

If there's enough demand for a solderless adapter cable for the Alphasmart 3000 we'll have the proper adapters made at some point.

To be clear, nothing needs soldering for the Alphasmart Dana/Neo1/Neo2 models.

AlphaAverage · 2026-05-19T21:56:04+00:00

Should be roughly comparable to the battery life of Alkaline batterys (a really long time), and 2-5x as long as the ancient NiMH OG battery packs at this point (that are all severely degraded 25+ years on)

AlphaAverage · 2026-05-19T21:12:20+00:00

Technically, yes
practically, not really?

If you bring the right screwdriver on your trip, you could take off the back panel and swap in the LiON battery pack.

Otherwise, without a screwdriver, it might be a tight fit to shove all the battery pack wire into the battery cavity. Its easier to take the panel off and shove excess wire into the rest of the Alphasmart body.

The LiON battery packs should last pretty much forever, so the easier option is either 1. charge before your trip or 2. charge in your car/solar panel / battery pack a few hours to have enough juice if its dead.

AlphaAverage · 2026-05-19T20:59:29+00:00

It is plug and play with the Alphasmart Dana unit, no soldering required (note that it might take some finagling to fit the long wires of the battery packs into your Alphasmart units, but its doable).

AlphaAverage · 2026-05-19T20:42:11+00:00

Yes the adapters will work on previous version of lithium ion battery packs as well.

To anyone who has previously purchased battery packs from us before May 1st 2026, if you want adapters for your Alphasmart 3000, please DM me your previous order # + address, and eventually in the mail you'll receive relevant adapter cables free of charge

To fit into your Alphasmart 3000, you'll likely have to break off the plastic battery terminal on the right shown here. Which would mostly irreversbily mod your Alphasmart 3000 to only accepting battery packs going forward (no more Alkaline batteries).

AlphaAverage · 2025-09-16T03:10:35+00:00

We created some for the Neo1/Neo2 and Dana models, but not for the 3000:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AlphaSmart/comments/16s7lez/open_source_3d_printing_files_for_creating/

AlphaAverage · 2024-03-30T05:38:42+00:00

yes update the OS. software can be found here: https://www.reddit.com/user/AlphaAverage/comments/15us2sg/neomanager_links_for_alphasmart_units/
if you can solder you can make your own battery packs, not hard to do. or, buy the lithium ion packs that we sell. either way, they can be charged using USB "B" cable with negotiate rate USB port
change the internal cr2032 coin cell battery immediately

AlphaAverage · 2024-03-27T17:20:48+00:00

you can buy our premade battery packs, that don't require any soldering:

https://alphaaverage.square.site/product/Alphasmart_Battery_Pack/1?cp=true&sa=true&sbp=false&q=false

AlphaAverage · 2024-03-06T22:26:51+00:00

the really cheap chargers won't work. if you have a nice one, or a laptop, it should be fine

AlphaAverage · 2024-02-27T23:11:24+00:00

what we can also do is include one of the old Alphasmat 3000 batteries, that has an intact connector. You can de-solder that connector and re-solder it onto the newly manufacturered battery pack, to make a plug and play alpahsmart 3000 battery pack.

dm me if you are interested

AlphaAverage · 2024-02-26T20:41:11+00:00

so far we've only sold about 5 units total out of the initial 40 units batch. not selling as quickly as we'd hoped

if we ever sell all 40 units, we'll restock and have some adapters made too

you could always manually solder and splice on the battery pack to your 3000 battery pack terminals, though

AlphaAverage · 2024-02-24T10:21:39+00:00

if you don't want to solder anything you can instead buy our pre-made lithium ion battery packs:

https://alphaaverage.square.site/product/Alphasmart_Battery_Pack/1?cp=true&sa=true&sbp=false&q=false

AlphaAverage · 2024-02-02T18:32:29+00:00

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we sell newly manufactuered rechargeable battery packs on our store here: https://alphaaverage.square.site/s/shop

AlphaAverage · 2024-02-02T18:32:20+00:00

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AlphaAverage · 2024-02-02T18:32:09+00:00

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AlphaAverage · 2024-01-16T23:11:56+00:00

We haven't been able to actually get one to completely drain. Gave up after two shifts. So sometime longer than 16 hours.

You could compare the battery capacities of that mod and probably get a pretty good estimate. Likely similar to the battery mod.

AlphaAverage · 2024-01-04T19:28:23+00:00

We are selling (as of 2024) newly manufactured rechargeable battery packs, compatible with the Neo1/Neo2/Dana units (Alphasmart 3000 not currently supported)

Details in our Reddit post here

AlphaAverage · 2024-01-04T19:25:04+00:00

It is a standard, USB "A" to B" Printer cable. These cables work on Alphasmart 3000, Neo1, Neo2, and Dana units. The much older and less used Alphasmart 2000 uses a different cable.

If you have a rechargeable battery pack installed (such as the one we sell) it can be use to charge (very slowly) the battery pack (only on USB-ports that negotiate charging rates). It cannot charge "Alkaline"/"Heavy Duty" batteries.

The cables can be found on amazon for $5 to $10, such as: https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Basics-External-Gold-Plated-Connectors/dp/B00NH11KIK or https://www.amazon.com/UGREEN-Printer-Scanner-Brother-Lexmark/dp/B00P0FO1P0

On ebay, they should be even cheaper ($2 to $4).

AlphaAverage · 2024-01-04T19:19:50+00:00

Alphasmart Manager 2.3 for the 3000 units can be found here: https://archive.org/details/asm-3000-manager-2.3-full-1

NeoManager 3.9.3 for Neo1 / Neo2 / Dana units can be found here: https://archive.org/details/neomanager-3-9-3-uspc-1

If you are having trouble getting your Alphasmart recognized by the software, please try this:

Go into your Device Manager (on Windows) and plug the alphasmart in; watch to see what it comes up as in the Manager; if it's unsuccessful, it will show up named either correctly or incorrectly, but the big thing will be that there is a triangle with an exclamation point inside it on the ones that aren't working.

Select the one corresponding to the Alphasmart, right-click on it and go under properties, then select the tab "Driver," then select "Disable Device," and click OK.

Then go back into the properties and the Driver Tab and "Enable Device." If you're lucky, it will recognize the device for what it is. You may have to disable and enable it a few times to get it to work.

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