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Technology Stocks : VALENCE TECHNOLOGY (VLNC) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dennis V. who wrote (4910)	11/12/1998 8:16:00 AM
From: Prasanna L Soni	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27311

Good Morning Folks!! I own a healthy chunk of VLNC amongst other stocks. I am not being a cheerleader, just an observer of facts. Did any body believe Bernie Ebbers when he started "Long Distance Discount Service" or LDDS and now MCI world com. Did any body believe Bill McGowen when started MCI. Did anybody believe Compaq and DELL. Actually a MORON by the Name of Mike Burke , who has a thread here on SI has been bad mouthing both these stocks throughout the last 3000% rise. He makes a very eloquent argument, why these companies will go belly up and the chinese and taiwanese will eat their lunch. WRONG !!! as Cramer would say I can go on and on. VLNC is in the right business at the right time. People like Shugart and the chairman of MCI need another million dollars like I need aids. They go on boards of companies for strategic reasons and power and ego. They would not be where they are if they went on boards of crooked companies. So ignore the detractors, don't put all your eggs in one basket like some people on this thread have done, and make money . Got to go to work. Prasanna

To: Dennis V. who wrote (4910)	11/12/1998 9:06:00 AM
From: Dennis V.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27311

More questions: Since the premier advantage of the plastic cell is flexible design configuration, wouldn't a manufacturer attempt to take maximum advantage of this from the gitgo? A large, flat cell designed to be used in various laptops? One competitive advantage of the plastic battery is flexibility of design. So, is it reasonable that only a small generic cell with applications requiring multicell packages is to be produced because of the expense of producing custom single cell designs? What I think: we are underestimating the possibility that newer, revolutionary products are in the works.

To: Dennis V. who wrote (4910)	11/12/1998 10:20:00 AM
From: Emmo	Respond to of 27311

<<could a laptop run on one cell if the capacity were adequate?>> Unlikley, batteries are like legos, you stack cells together until you get the voltage you need. Like your car battery, each cell is 2vdc so they line up six cells for 12vdc. Speaking of car batteries why the silence from the Delphi folks. I wonder what they are up to with their share of the design?

To: Dennis V. who wrote (4910)	11/12/1998 10:27:00 AM
From: Gordon Quickstad	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 27311

>> ...could a laptop run on one cell if the capacity were adequate? << No. The cells are too thin by virtue of their laminate construction. They have to be ganged to build thickness. The batteries on the web page must surely be ganged cells, unless they have figured a way to fold them, which doesn't make sense, due to all the problems that would introduce. Thread, I think vlnc is talking 1800 batteries. They make laminates, cells, and batteries. They have most of their patents on cells and have spent most of their time debugging cells. If Lev lets cells slip out instead of batteries, it's understandable.