Hello :)

 

No, behind that panel you find the motherboard with amplifiers and Mozart "2.0" board.

The battery can accessed from the bottom, you need to take off the plastic oval and remove the screws you'll find.

It's a 7.4V 9000mAh battery (66.6Wh) - at least, on initial batches. Not sure if now they've actually changed to 7200mAh (still 7.4V, hence at lower capacity, or if they've just switched to a 3-cell configuration for increased capacity at 11.1V X 7200mAh = 79.92Wh)

 

Just FYI, the consumer electronics devices with largest batteries you'll most likely come across in your life are laptops, which top at 99.9Wh exactly because of the air transport limit you're describing.

 

Generally speaking, portable devices are designed to have batteries smaller than 100Wh, and most people at airport security know that :)

This is to say: don't worry, you're extremely unlikely to have any issues with Beosound A5 when traveling via air.

Hi Matte,

Thanks for taking the time to respond. I actually flew with the A5 in hand baggage last week - an impulse buy while in London on a brief visit.

I was assuming a combination of 3.7, 7.4 and 7200/9000mAh so had the Wh's for each in my head. A lot of airlines are now reducing the Wh to 50 with the exception of Laptops and its a definite no-no for any battery now in the hold.

Anyway, airline never asked...I never told them and 2 x Airport Security didn't give 2 pennies either.

But thanks again for taking time to answer.

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While the topic is current.....I'll post some quick comments on my new A5.....

1. A5 was purchased to replace an A6 as our "outside" dining music device and its reliance on a power cord.
2. The music is good for what it is and its physical limitations for sound.
3. As per the battery issue above, I suspect the A5 battery is rather like a P6 in the removal of a base/foot rubber/silicone ring (messy)
4. I also suspect the charging circuit will go before the batter - like the P6, A2 and others.
5. Not a fan of the USB-C charging right at the bottom of the aluminium base plate. I can see that has potential problems over time?
6. I am not a fan of the rubberised top - it seems to be a dirt magnet but guess it seals the electronics in from the moisture?
7. I think not having illuminated or textured buttons was a design error. At a dinner table in the garden at night its difficult to see (and impossible to feel) what you're pressing.

Otherwise a nice-enough product to own and to use in a mobile-way in the home. 10